Hello Brian,

Yum should solve dependencies (unless you tell it not to). So puppet is
skipping dependencies on package updates?



On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Brian Mathis <brian.mat...@betteradmin.com
> wrote:

> You are relying on the functionality of 'yum' to pull in the dependencies,
> which is a shortcut, and this is the kind of problem such shortcuts bring.
>
> You should be making new puppet modules for each of the dependencies, and
> have the zend package 'require' all of those modules.  You can update the
> versions in the dependency modules by using  "ensure => latest".
>
> The "yum update" exec will work, but it would be missing the point of
> Puppet and no different than managing systems with a shell script.
>
>
> ❧ Brian Mathis
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:21 AM, cko <dert...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>  im trying to update the zend server package the following way:
>>
>>
>>   package { "zend-server-php-5.4-6.1.0:
>>     ensure => present,
>>     require => [Yumrepo["ZendRepo"],Yumrepo["Zend_noarch"]],
>>     notify => File["/etc/ld.so.conf.d/zend_server.conf"]
>>   }
>>
>> when i install a node from scratch, the latest version (*including *the
>> latest depencencies) gets installed.
>>
>> when i apply this to an existing node (with an older version of zend
>> server) *ONLY *the package ""zend-server-php-" gets updated. updates for
>> the packages "mod-php-5.4-apache2-zend-server-*" and " php*-5.4.16" (the
>> dependencies) are ignored.
>>
>> whats the best way to solve this?
>>
>> i was thinking about an "yum update php*" exec?
>>
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