YUM Provider in 3.x

[Paul Seymour]

Hello,

Working through some issues with upgrading our environment from 2.x to 3.5 (now I should probably target 3.6 !) anyway we have a module which 

does basically.

package { 'openssh-server':

  ensure => 'absent',

}

package { '3rd-party-ssh':

  ensure => 'installed'

}

This 3rd party SSH package has a "provides" of openssh-server on it. As such if you issue a "yum remove openssh-server" manually it will try and remove

the 3rd party version. Which is the standard YUM behaviour I believe.

So therefore on the 3.x servers the package is being removed/installed every time and as there is no dependencies here it can leave us without an SSH

server running.

Which I guess is probably what we are actually telling it to do. But this never happens in the 2.x series.

Any ideas on why, and how we can stop this behaviour ?

Thanks

Paul

[José Luis Ledesma]

Hi,

   I think someone said a workaround in this group that consisted in setting the arch. You can try with:

package { 'openssh-server.x86_64':

  ensure => 'absent',

}

Hth,

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[Paul Seymour]

It works. Thanks a lot my Google'ing turned up nothing....

[Kylo Ginsberg]

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Paul Seymour <paul.s...@ig.com> wrote:

Hello,

Working through some issues with upgrading our environment from 2.x to 3.5 (now I should probably target 3.6 !) anyway we have a module which 

does basically.

package { 'openssh-server':

  ensure => 'absent',

}

package { '3rd-party-ssh':

  ensure => 'installed'

}

This 3rd party SSH package has a "provides" of openssh-server on it. As such if you issue a "yum remove openssh-server" manually it will try and remove

the 3rd party version. Which is the standard YUM behaviour I believe.

Yes, 3.5 fixed puppet's behavior to match yum's with respect to virtual packages, a long requested feature. See https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-897 for details.

However, it was a regression wrt *puppet* which took a number of people by surprise, so in 3.6.1, there's a fix to make the new (3.5-style, yum-matching) behavior opt-in via a new "allow_virtual" parameter (with the intent to change the default to be the yum-matching behavior in puppet 4). See https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-2182 for discussion.

Kylo

So therefore on the 3.x servers the package is being removed/installed every time and as there is no dependencies here it can leave us without an SSH

server running.

Which I guess is probably what we are actually telling it to do. But this never happens in the 2.x series.

Any ideas on why, and how we can stop this behaviour ?

Thanks

Paul

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