On 10/08/2012, at 3:20, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Douglas Garstang
> <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm on Ubuntu, and I wanted to always have 'apt-get update' run before
>> attempting to install packages, so I put this in my top level site.pp
>> file:
>>
>> exec {
>> 'refresh-repos':
>> command => '/usr/bin/apt-get update';
>> }
>>
>> Package {
>> require => Exec['refresh-repos']
>> }
>>
>> However, that causes a nasty cyclic dependency error. I really HATE
>> those because the error message makes it impossible to interpret
>> what's actually going on.
>>
>> How can I do this without the awful cyclic error messages?
>
> What version of Puppet are you on? Can you paste or link to the error
> message itself so we can actually tell what the dependency cycle is?
>
I have used stages to handle this sort of thing. Setting up a repo stage to
refresh repos before the main stage.
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/metaparameter.html#stage
Cheers
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