On 01/18/2011 03:06 PM, Avi Miller wrote: > Mike Lococo wrote: >> 2) Use the yum-driven options *AND* run your own satellite server so you >> can ping it as often as you like. > > You don't need a Satellite Server for this, just a plain Yum server will > do, which is essentially just httpd + createrepo for RHEL5. This is > about 2 seconds worth of work. You can then send down a custom Yum > repository configuration with the Yumrepo[] type, something that is > unique in Puppet to RHEL-based systems.
I don't follow this. RedHat doesn't make binary packages available, so what do you fill your yum repo with? Also, I definitely understand that there are ways to work around this bug. But there's also clearly interest in getting it fixed, as evidenced by a community-submitted patch, and interest in using the feature if/when its released as evidence by the number of folks who have reported it and by the strong feelings in this thread. > I couldn't imagine doing any RPM package installation with an RPM type. > Everything should come down from a Yum server, if only for version and > dependency management. We have been discussing the yum provider all along, it makes use of the rpm command for certain operations. For example, rpm is used implement "ensure => absent" package removals, and I believe also to check whether the package is installed before running yum when "ensure => present" is specified. Using rpm for these operations is good because it saves unnecessary load on the yum server. However, without batched transactions some packages cannot be removed without specifying "ensure => purged" and incurring the yum hit for every puppet-run, and then using one of the workarounds I previously discussed to avoid getting blacklisted by RedHat. Plus the performance of one-yum-run per package is terrible, both in terms of long puppet-runs and load on the yum-server. Regards, Mike Lococo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
