Jira (PUP-10398) Installing/upgrading multiple architectures of a package.

Corey Benefrayim (Jira)

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PUP-10398

Installing/upgrading multiple architectures of a package.

Change By:	Corey Benefrayim
Summary:	Installing/upgrading multiple packages at once architectures of a package.

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Josh Cooper (Jira)

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PUP-10398

Installing/upgrading multiple architectures of a package.

Change By:	Josh Cooper

Ran into an issue with a node that has multiple architectures of a package installed (libcurl.i686 and libcurl.x86_64.)

When trying to use puppet to handle the upgrade of the package, it failed because the package resource handled the updates one at a time. This appears to be a limitation of yum as the packages must be the exact same revision.

This can be circumvented by having both package names in the same yum command:

{noformat}
yum install libcurl.x86_64 libcurl.i686
{noformat}

I was able to circumvent this with the following class definition:

{code:puppet}
class update_libcurl {
    exec { 'yum_update_libcurl':
      command   => 'yum install libcurl.x86_64 libcurl.i686 -y',
      path  => '/usr/bin/',
    }
}
{code}

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Josh Cooper (Jira)

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Re: Installing/upgrading multiple architectures of a package.

This is a duplicate of PUP-1061. It's not currently possible to install multiple packages at once using the package type. As a result puppet can't install packages that have circular dependencies like this.