install_options fails for rpm provider

[zerozer...@gmail.com]

Hi,

AFAICT from the docs <http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#package-provider-features>, when using a "package" resource with the rpm provider, the install_options attribute should be allowed.

But it seems it is not taken into account here.

I have a resource like this:

  package { "PEAR::XML_Serializer":

    source => "/root/packages/PEAR::XML_Serializer-0.18.0-1.noarch.rpm",

    install_options => [ "--nodeps", "--force" ]

  }

But puppet fails and I get this error in the log:

err: /Package[PEAR::XML_Serializer]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/bin/rpm -i --oldpackage /root/packages/PEAR::XML_Serializer-0.18.0-1.noarch.rpm' returned 1: error: Failed dependencies:

PEAR::XML_Util >= 1.1.1 is needed by PEAR::XML_Serializer-0.18.0-1.noarch

Any clues?

Thanks.

Marco

[zerozer...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, February 6, 2014 12:44:53 PM UTC+1, zerozer...@gmail.com wrote:

 

AFAICT from the docs <http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#package-provider-features>, when using a "package" resource with the rpm provider, the install_options attribute should be allowed.

But it seems it is not taken into account here.

Oh… sorry, I've just discovered that this feature is a very recent addition, introduced in Puppet 3.4.0.

Now I need to find out if I can update my master from 3.3.2 and my clients from 2.7.23 (I don't know why they are provisioned with this version installed by default).

Marco