If the local install is not working, then just do it from your custom, local repo
Make sure the local repo is enabled on the agent ( puppet type yumrepo ) and then set the yum priorities so that your repo has a higher priority than the EPEL repo http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities That works for me. On Jun 7, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Paul Pham wrote: > Hey guys, puppet n00b here. I think I already found an answer for my question > here, but the topic was dated back in november of 2011, so I'm hoping things > have changed since then! Here's the topic I'm referring to. > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/puppet-users/oSHWWjMX-sE > > I'm running: > CentOS 6.3 > yum 3.2.29 > puppet 3.2.1 > > To sum it up, I would like to install an RPM which I have saved locally on > the target machine using puppet and yum. Couple reasons: > I want yum to resolve dependencies for me. > I need to install a custom-packaged version of collectd (v5, since EPEL only > has v4, and we've made some customizations). > Here's a code snippet: > package { 'collectd': > ensure => $ensure_pkg, > source => $localInstallPath, > #provider => rpm, > } > > If I use provider == rpm, it works fine assuming I already have the > dependencies installed. But I won't, on new machines. Of course I could > install those using other puppet modules, but I find it kind of annoying that > I need to build yet more puppet modules just to install dependencies, > especially since that's what yum is there for. > > When I leave provider commented out, puppet defaults to yum. Problem is, it > doesn't use my source param, $localInstallPath. I've seen other folks point > to sources over http, which apparently works fine (meaning, source => > "http://someserver.com/mycustom.rpm";). But when I specify a local path in my > variable (like "/home/test/rpms/mycustom.rpm") it doesn't get used: > > ..snip.. > Debug: Prefetching yum resources for package > Debug: Executing '/bin/rpm --version' > Debug: Executing '/bin/rpm -qa --nosignature --nodigest --qf '%{NAME} > %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH} > '' > Debug: Executing '/bin/rpm -q collectd --nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME} > %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH} > ' > Debug: Package[collectd](provider=yum): Ensuring => present > Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install collectd' > Debug: Executing '/bin/rpm -q collectd --nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME} > %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH} > ' > > Ideally, all I want to change is: > /usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install collectd > to > /usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install /home/test/rpms/collectd.blah.rpm > > So, any hints? Is there some parameter other than source that I can pass into > my package def that will force it to do this install from a local RPM? > > Thanks! > P > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
