Hi everybody,
I have the following output for a redhat 5 server with puppet 2.7.9: [root@XXXX]:/var/log # puppet apply -e 'package { locate: (continue) ensure => purged, (continue) } (continue) ' notice: /Stage[main]//Package[locate]/ensure: created notice: Finished catalog run in 4.71 seconds [root@XXXX]:/var/log # puppet apply -e 'package { locate: ensure => purged, } ' notice: /Stage[main]//Package[locate]/ensure: created notice: Finished catalog run in 4.74 seconds [root@XXXX]:/var/log # puppet apply -e 'package { locate: ensure => absent, } ' notice: Finished catalog run in 0.37 seconds [root@XXX]:/var/log # Is this normal that purged action runs everytime on redhat?Is that because the package does not exist on redhat? # yum search locate Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security ============================================================================================= Matched: locate ============================================================================================= findutils.x86_64 : The GNU versions of find utilities (find and xargs). xinetd.x86_64 : A secure replacement for inetd. classpathx-jaf.x86_64 : GNU JavaBeans(tm) Activation Framework ctags.x86_64 : A C programming language indexing and/or cross-reference tool. dnsmasq.x86_64 : A lightweight DHCP/caching DNS server doodle.x86_64 : Searches your hard drive for files using pattern matching on meta-data e2undel.x86_64 : Tool for recovering deleted files on an ext2 or ext3 filesystem fontconfig.i386 : Font configuration and customization library fontconfig.x86_64 : Font configuration and customization library mlocate.x86_64 : An utility for finding files by name nagios.x86_64 : Open Source host, service and network monitoring program perl-Class-BlackHole.noarch : Base class to treat unhandled method calls as no-ops perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-DSA.x86_64 : DSA encryption perl-Email-Address.noarch : RFC 2822 Address Parsing and Creation perl-File-ShareDir.noarch : Locate per-dist and per-module shared files perl-Module-Extract.noarch : Base class for creating modules perl-Module-Locate.noarch : Perl module to locate modules in the same fashion as require and use perl-SVN-Push.noarch : Push Repository to Remote Subversion Repository perl-WebService-Uptrack.noarch : access KSplice Uptrack web API planner.x86_64 : A graphical project management tool. postgresql.x86_64 : PostgreSQL client programs and libraries. postgresql84.x86_64 : PostgreSQL client programs scanmem.x86_64 : Simple interactive debugging utility ssss.x86_64 : Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme strobe.x86_64 : Super optimized TCP port surveyor which.x86_64 : Displays where a particular program in your path is located. wvdial.x86_64 : A heuristic autodialer for PPP connections. Regards, JM -- 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.