On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:57 AM, bjoern pohl <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi,
> hopefully this hasn't been discussed too often, haven't found anything in
> the group:
>
> I'm having some issues when a package gets installed twice ( x86 & x64
> version).
> #system is a RHEL5/x64 system.
> *#following manifest:*
> [root@kermit ~]# cat install_expect.pp
> package { 'expect':
> ensure => present,
> }
> *#ok, let's apply*
> [root@kermit ~]# puppet apply install_expect.pp
> Notice: /Stage[main]//Package[expect]/ensure: created
> Notice: Finished catalog run in 14.25 seconds
>
> *#let's see what we've got*
> [root@kermit ~]# rpm -qa|grep expect
> expect-5.43.0-8.el5
> expect-5.43.0-8.el5
> *#so we have two versions installed ( in fact it's the x64 and x86
> version. for whatever reason yum installs both ( it's yum, a dry-run with
> yum results in the same situation)
> #I would not have expected this for expect ( :) ) , but for libs that's
> normal on an x64 system.*
> *
> #ok, lets uninstall expect*
> [root@kermit ~]# cat uninstall_expect.pp
> package { 'expect':
> ensure => absent,
> }
> [root@kermit ~]# puppet apply uninstall_expect.pp
> Notice: /Stage[main]//Package[expect]/ensure: removed
> Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.27 seconds
>
> [root@kermit ~]# rpm -qa|grep expect
> expect-5.43.0-8.el5
> *#here's my problem - there's still one left.*
>
> *#2nd run:*
> [root@kermit ~]# puppet apply uninstall_expect.pp
> Notice: /Stage[main]//Package[expect]/ensure: removed
> Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.61 seconds
> [root@kermit ~]# rpm -qa|grep expect
> [root@kermit ~]#
> *#now it's completely absent*
>
> Any Idea how I can avoid multiple runs to completely remove it ( so,
> basically what rpm -e --allmatches <rpm> would do )?
>
The behavior you are seeing is actually the one noted in the provider
code[1]. I'm not sure why it was implemented this way since removing both
seems to be the correct action. I would open a ticket since this requires a
change to the rpm package provider.
Thanks,
Nan
1.
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/package/rpm.rb#L120-L124
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