Hi Tim,
What you want is this:
package { "mysql": ensure => absent, before =>
Package["MySQL-client-community"]; }
package { "MySQL-client-community": ensure => installed;}
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Tim Nicholas <t...@nicholas.net.nz> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> I'm just getting to grips with Puppet so apologies if I've missed something.
>
> I'm wondering if there is a way to require that something isn't the case.
>
> My current situation/example is that I'm trying to uninstall one
> package ("mysql") and install another one that conflicts with it
> ("MySQL-client-community") in one puppet run.
>
> I can do something like:
>
> package { [ "mysql" ] : ensure => absent, }
> package { [ "MySQL-client-community", ] : ensure => installed, }
>
> Which is fine, unless "MySQL-client-community" is scheduled to be
> installed before mysql is removed, in which case it errors and I'm
> left with a system with no mysql.
>
> Obviously, I can just run puppet again and it'll be fine but I'd
> really like to do something like:
>
> package { [ "MySQL-client-community", ] : ensure => installed,
> require => ! Package[ "mysql" ] }
>
> with the ! negating the requirement.
>
> Is this possible or am I approaching this from the wrong angle and I
> should be doing something quite different?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
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