On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:46 AM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote > > > On Apr 19, 8:26 am, Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> > wrote: >> On 04/19/2011 03:18 PM, jcbollinger wrote: > > [...] > >> > The bottom line as far as our discussion goes, however, is that it is >> > *intentional* that the yum Package provider fails to remove packages >> > on which other installed packages depend, and that there is good >> > technical justification for that design choice. I would be surprised >> > if other Package providers were different in that regard. Your Puppet >> > manifests need to account for that, one way or another. >> >> I disagree. >> >> First off, the apt provider *will* recursively uninstall depending packages. > > That's an unfortunate inconsistency between providers. I am > surprised. > > Oddly enough, I found bug 1739, closed on 0.24.x, that makes exactly > the change from "rpm -e" to "yum -y remove". That would make the yum > provider work like the apt provider. I didn't find anything > suggesting that it was reverted, yet the change is not present in the > released code.
The commit is still present, it's implemented as the purge action for yum provider. Check: git show d5e19f git blame lib/puppet/provider/package/yum.rb Nan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
