On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Douglas Garstang
<doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm on Ubuntu, and I wanted to always have 'apt-get update' run before
> attempting to install packages, so I put this in my top level site.pp
> file:
>
> exec {
> 'refresh-repos':
> command => '/usr/bin/apt-get update';
> }
>
> Package {
> require => Exec['refresh-repos']
> }
>
> However, that causes a nasty cyclic dependency error. I really HATE
> those because the error message makes it impossible to interpret
> what's actually going on.
>
> How can I do this without the awful cyclic error messages?
What version of Puppet are you on? Can you paste or link to the error
message itself so we can actually tell what the dependency cycle is?
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