Re: [Puppet Users] Circular RPM dependencies...

2011-08-25 Thread Mike Lococo
o require admins to specify package-deps manually. Cheers, Mike Lococo On 08/25/2011 06:29 PM, R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Mike Lococo wrote: 2) You must understand how the yum and rpm os commands work, and specifically how they each handle dependencies and circular deps (yum works to

Re: [Puppet Users] Circular RPM dependencies...

2011-08-25 Thread Mike Lococo
e to understand much about rpm dependencies. The behaviors involved are pretty straightforward, but you can't make big assumptions about what dependency cycles mean based on your experience in other systems. Cheers, Mike Lococo -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [Puppet Users] Circular RPM dependencies...

2011-08-22 Thread Mike Lococo
the yum provider very close to useless. I'm watching bug #2198 closely to see if it ever lands, but it seems to be very low on the priority list given that there's been a patch sitting unmerged for almost two years. Folks who work around this issue do so with execs, but I think more

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way of handling source installs

2011-03-02 Thread Mike Lococo
can just keep building from source. The last option is likely to be the least time-consuming IMO. If you want details on my packaging setup, feel free to reach out to me offline. Cheers, Mike Lococo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Multiple packages installation in one yum call

2011-01-19 Thread Mike Lococo
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, wh

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Multiple packages installation in one yum call

2011-01-18 Thread Mike Lococo
rward, improves performance of puppet-runs, and has no downside that has been discussed in its bug. Cheers, 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.