On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 07:44:46PM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote:
[...]
>
> > package { "vim-purge":
> > name => "vim",
> > ensure => absent
> > }
> > package { "vim":
> > name => "vim-nox",
> > ensure => installed,
> > require => Package["vim-purge"]
> > }
>
> Excellent suggestion. That, of c
> My first thought would be that your vim package is set up to advertise itself
> as providing an acceptable substitute for the vim-nox package. Thus, when
> puppet asks your package manager "do you have the vim-nox package installed?"
> it says "sure!"
It doesn't look like it. Perusing the cod
Ben Beuchler wrote:
> My initial base config contained a "vim" package. After installing a
> few servers I realized what I really wanted was a "vim-nox" package.
>
> Feeling clever, I changed this:
>
> package {"vim":
> ensure => installed,
> }
>
> To this:
>
> package {"vim":
> na
