Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet, Yum, Cassandra, openjdk and --nodeps

Thanks for this suggestion btw Nikola, this might be the most practical and easiest way to solve this specific problem. I'm just also curious about how folks are solving the general case, as well. On Friday, July 26, 2013 12:50:03 AM UTC-7, nikolavp wrote: > > This is rather unfortunate. The onl

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet, Yum, Cassandra, openjdk and --nodeps

This is rather unfortunate. The only way that I can think of is to change the deb/rpm package and serve that on your own. We are using cassandra on some deployment too but force JAVA_HOME explicitly in configuration files to the oracle jdk -- Nikola On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 02:29:44PM -0700, P

[Puppet Users] Puppet, Yum, Cassandra, openjdk and --nodeps

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