I just discovered I cannot resource-purge yumrepos -- Is there another way ?

[Dan White]

I added a bunch of yumrepo resources to my node definitions and thought I'd finish it with a

resources { 'yumrepo': purge => true, }

But when I tried to run it, I get this:

err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter purge failed: Purging is only supported on types that accept 'ensure' at /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes/....

Is there an alternative, non-messy way to do what that statement should do for me ?

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

[Stefan Schulte]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 03:09:49PM +0000, Dan White wrote:
> I added a bunch of yumrepo resources to my node definitions and thought I'd finish it with a
>
> resources { 'yumrepo': purge => true, }
>
> But when I tried to run it, I get this:
>
> err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter purge failed: Purging is only supported on types that accept 'ensure' at /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes/....
>

While I don't have a workaround for you, there is a featurerequest to
accomplish resource purging

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/9293

-Stefan

[Dan White]

That the problem is known is a comfort.

I will trash my way around it one way or another, and if I come up with any neato tricks for removal of a repo, I will contact the list and/or the Feature Assignee :)

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

[Eric Sorenson]

This is sort of hackish but not too bad... set a list of file resources that are the resultant names of the /etc/yum.repos.d/<blah>.repo files, and purge everything else in that directory.

class yum::cleanup {

    # shorthand for the repo directory

    $rd = "/etc/yum.repos.d"

    # clean the yum.repos.d directory of any non-managed files

    file { "$rd": ensure => directory, purge => true, recurse => true }

    # NOTE: If you add a new yumrepo, make a matching file resource here!

    file { [ "$rd/local.repo",

             "$rd/os.repo",

             "$rd/base.repo", ] : 

                ensure => present, 

         }

}

class yum::repositories {

    require yum::cleanup

    yumrepo { "os"

   .... etc ...

    }

}

[Dan White]

Thank you.
Simple enough to ignore the hack-ish nature :)

Looks like it will do the job

All it needs are a few yum commands to run whenever the file changes to refresh the local databse.

I will tinker with that and report back to the list.

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