Mr Pienaar, I would love to help adding it then.
Where do I start? Guillem Liarte On Thursday, 10 January 2013 11:59:28 UTC, R.I. Pienaar wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Guillem Liarte" <guillem...@googlemail.com <javascript:>> > > To: puppet...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 11:44:13 AM > > Subject: [Puppet Users] mcollective package plugin rpm versions > > > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to find out how to manage versions for installed software. > > > > It seems that the 'package' plugin does not take a version argument, > > rendering it quite less useful than it could be. Yes, I can manage a > > version with Puppet, but maybe in certain environments I would like to > be > > able to manage the version of the installed software from mc. > > > > So what I would like to do is: > > > > mco package install myapp 1.1.2 -C myapp -F environment=development > > > > Obviously this is not possible now because package does not take > versions > > as an argument. > > > > I have tried the 'packages' plug-in that claims to manage several > packages > > and takes versions but, it plainly does not work (they say they tested > it > > with EL6, I use EL5). > > > > I control the version of packages with puppet/hiera currently. This is a > > good solution, but I am looking to let puppet do all the work up to the > > last bit, where the application version can be changed the same way as > you > > would o yum install package-*version*. I am not looking for how to do > this > > with yum or puppet, but with mcollective. > > > > > > So, what do you guys and girls do to manage package versions for your > > environments with mcollective? > > it would be easy to add the ability to manage the ensure property of the > package from the mcollective command line. We've not had that feature > request though before now > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/j04nhS8P4KEJ. 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.
