Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: installing particular package versions
Author: Metabaron
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18643,18648#msg-18648
*If* you are using a Debian based distribution it might be a good idea to take
a look at apt-pinning. This will make sure that the
Grant, you will find a description in the manuals. As I said, you can choose.
Cfengine
doesn't do anything that you don't ask it to do. Cfengine 3 is a completely new
animal,
so don't begin by comparing it to 2. I would tyically say:
http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-reference.html#packages-i
Hi Mark
So does that mean that cfengine 3 will pass the version number of a
package through to the package manager?
eg in cfengine 2
in the repo there are the following packages
app-1.0
app-2.0
app-3.0
If I use the following
packages:
appcmp=eq version=0:2.0 action=install
cfengine 2
Cfengine 3 just gives you a generic interface to pass through to the package
manager, So
it's up to you to say what you want. I never specify version numbers, but some
people want
to. In some cases package managers give unwanted side effects like "smart"
management of
dependencies that can brea
Hello
We are currently on cfengine 2 and are looking to migrate to 3. One
issue we have is the the inability to install a particular rpm version
using the the package action.
This causes us to "store" our current package versions by administering
the repo rather than just in the cfengine confi
