On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Scott Smith<sc...@ohlol.net> wrote:
>
> Am fairly certain --test implies --dry-run and won't actually enact
> any changes.
Nope.
--test is basically shorthand for:
--verbose
--ignorecache
--no-usecacheonfailure
--no-splay
--show_diff
--no-daemonize
IIRC.
>
> You have other issues w/your config, though.
>
> -scott
>
>
>
> On Jul 23, 2009, at 9:50, awreneau <awren...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Found a recipe that indicates the following will uninstall (equiv of
>> apt-get remove vlc) the vlc package.
>>
>> # /etc/puppet/manifests/classes/packages.pp
>>
>> class packages {
>> $packages = ["vlc"]
>> package{ $packages:
>> ensure => absent
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>> When I run sudo puppetd --test I see the following
>>
>>
>> sudo puppetd --test
>> info: Retrieving plugins
>> err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Failed to generate additional
>> resources during transaction: Cannot access mount[plugins]
>> err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Failed to retrieve current state of
>> resource: Cannot access mount[plugins] Could not describe /plugins:
>> Cannot access mount[plugins]
>> info: Caching catalog at /var/lib/puppet/state/localconfig.yaml
>> notice: Starting catalog run
>> notice: Finished catalog run in 0.55 seconds
>> t...@ubuntu:~$ which vlc
>> /usr/bin/vlc
>>
>>
>> As you can see the last two lines of the paragraph indicate VLC is
>> still installed. Googling has only produced the option of changing
>> absent to purged, this returns the same results.
>>
>>
>> I was able to successfully install vlc w/ the same recipe by changing
>> absent to installed.
>>
>> Would really appreciate help on this.
>>
>>
>> >
>
> >
>
--
Nigel Kersten
nig...@google.com
System Administrator
Google, Inc.
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