On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:02 PM, elliott <misteresa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, looking for some general advice for how people are doing
> this...
>
> We have some packages that *must* be kept at a particular version
> (e.g. httpd, php) because our code and configurations depend on it.
> As far as I'm aware, in puppet, the only parameter that can be passed
> to a package type describing version information is the ensure
> directive, i.e. something like:
>
> package { "httpd":
> ensure => "2.2.3-43.el5.centos",
> }
>
> Which means that we must specify both package version (2.2.3) *and*
> RPM release version (43) to be installed. This seems to work fine,
> except when CentOS branches to a new release, and suddenly my specific
> RPM release is not available in the new yum repo anymore (current
> version is now httpd-2.2.3-45.el5.centos).
>
> Anyone have any advice for dealing with this? I'd rather not mirror
> the entire CentOS-Base repository locally at version 5.5 just so my
> few packages are available...
>
You can specify a package source, that isn't from a repo. IE: You can
specify the RPM package provider, and specify the source for the RPMs in
question from a URL or local file.
See the following for more details:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#package
-Brian
> Thanks!
>
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