Hello, puppet n00b here. Trying to install cassandra via puppet. Works great, only caveat is cassandra (dsc12 package) lists openjdk as a dependency. Ironically enough, the datastax guys themselves recommend using Oracle JRE instead of openjdk, and there is even a bug <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907485>that prevents cassandra from starting if it's using openjdk. Anyway, I fixed it by adding an exec to my puppet-java module that sets the Oracle JRE runtime as the defaults via alternatives, and it works fine. However, I still end up with two different java runtimes installed which I find to be a bit unclean.
The root of the problem to me, though, is that by having puppet install dsc12, I lose visibility into what all those dependencies were that got installed along with it (I didn't realize openjdk was even installing until I started investigating why cassandra wasn't starting). So what I'd prefer to do is add each individual package dependency into my cassandra module itself, thereby explicitly installing only what I intend to install, and nothing else. The only way this works, though, is if I can somehow pass the "--nodeps" option into yum during puppet apply time. Otherwise, regardless of whether I already installed Oracle JRE, using yum to install dsc12 will automatically install openjdk. How have you guys handled scenarios like this? I tried searching through the topics here for "yum nodeps" but it seems people found different ways of solving their individual problems rather than sending flags to the yum provider itself. I also noticed this puppet feature request<https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4976>which unfortunately has remained open(?) for 3 years. I've also seen people suggest that nodeps should never be used with yum since the purpose of yum is to handle dependencies... but we also like some of the other features of yum, like being able to pull packages down by name automatically from our yum repo (which we manage in-house). Anyway, any insights would be great! Thanks, Paul -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
