[Puppet Users] Cant get puppet to remove rpm's with circular dependencies

Hi Guys, I'm trying to use puppet to remove some software on all our machines. The two rpm's I'm trying to remove are dependent on each other, that is rpm A requires rpm B and rpm B requires rpm A. The packages installed fine with puppet via yum (I just asked to install rpm A). Unfortunately

[Puppet Users] Re: Can I use Puppet to run system updates?

> -Original Message- > From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet- > us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of thierry.thelliez.t...@gmail.com > Sent: 13 April 2009 19:23 > To: Puppet Users > Subject: [Puppet Users] Can I use Puppet to run system updates? > > 1- VMWare tools that want t

[Puppet Users] Re: Facter - the future - your input needed

> -Original Message- > From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet- > us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James Turnbull > Sent: 29 January 2009 21:55 > To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com; puppet-...@googlegroups.com > Subject: [Puppet Users] Facter - the future - your input neede

[Puppet Users] Re: Yum update

> Subject: [Puppet Users] Yum update > > What *do* you do? Say I've got 6 systems I want to keep in sync. > Let's say I upgrade one system manually and test a bit, and then want > to make that upgrade general. Do you do that through puppet, or what? I take a pragmatic approach: if the package c

[Puppet Users] Re: condition to test if fact contains ..

> Hello, > > I'm trying to build a module to install Dell OpenManage. I see there's > a fact that productname: > > productname => PowerEdge R200 > > I think there's no way to have a condtion that says if productname > starts with PowerEdge? Would I need a custom fact? Anyone write one > yet? :) V

[Puppet Users] Potentially dangerous behaviour of puppet with facter timeouts

Hi All, I've just encountered a (admittedly fairly unlikely) sequence of events that could have lead to puppet breaking a lot of our systems. Most things are behaving correctly but the end result is unexpected and dangerous, so although I'm not sure what the fix is I thought I'd highlight it a

[Puppet Users] Re: rrdgraph issue on rhel5

puppet-users@googlegroups.com wrote on 26/09/2008 22:20:01: > puppetmasterd[32231]: RRD library is missing; cannot store metrics > Any ideas? Thanks. Take a look at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/997c5ac71b29cde3/2cd751e3b3d595e5 hth. -ross --

[Puppet Users] Documentation generation

nt. I suspect a pretty html page, containing basically the same info with some additional comments would be sufficient, however. -ross -- Ross McKerchar Systems Analyst, Sophos Tel: 01235 559933 Web: http://www.sophos.com Sophos - security and control Sophos Plc, The Pentagon, Abingdon Science

[Puppet Users] Re: Setting file ownership with winbind groups - bug?

puppet-users@googlegroups.com wrote on 18/09/2008 23:10:33: > Try: > > http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/issues/new Thanks James: Bug filed at http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/show/1583 -- Ross McKerchar Systems Analyst, Sophos Tel: 01235 559933

[Puppet Users] Re: Setting file ownership with winbind groups - bug?

to track the ticket down without much effort. I'm now running 0.24.5 & still have the same problem. I also tried Nigel's fix @ http://github.com/nigelkersten/puppet/tree/c1a6adb84ecdcc1c2a2657b4d603c96ae3282125/lib/puppet/provider/nameservice/directoryservice.rb but it didn't h