Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetd attempting to install packages that aren't required

2010-10-05 Thread Jeff McCune
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:16 AM, ncantor wrote: > However, by default, the package isn't called by anything. There's also a subtle shift in thinking that may help you work with puppet. In the puppet language, resources are "declared" rather than "called" It's a bit strange because many resource

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetd attempting to install packages that aren't required

2010-10-05 Thread Jeff McCune
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:16 AM, ncantor wrote: > For some reason, puppet is attempting to install ruby-enterprise on > all my puppet clients. You told puppet to do so. =) I don't mean to be a jerk, but this really is the simple answer. > The only reason I can find for this behaviour > is that

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetd attempting to install packages that aren't required

2010-10-05 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 12:16:28AM -0700, ncantor wrote: > In order to get the package to only install on the systems that I > wanted to have it, I had to move it from a general package definition > to be inside a class. Is this normal behaviour? Yes. If you do want packages to be visible at the

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetd attempting to install packages that aren't required

2010-10-05 Thread Peter Meier
For some reason, puppet is attempting to install ruby-enterprise on all my puppet clients. The only reason I can find for this behaviour is that I've defined a package to install ruby-enterprise. However, by default, the package isn't called by anything. In order to get the package to only install

[Puppet Users] Puppetd attempting to install packages that aren't required

2010-10-05 Thread ncantor
For some reason, puppet is attempting to install ruby-enterprise on all my puppet clients. The only reason I can find for this behaviour is that I've defined a package to install ruby-enterprise. However, by default, the package isn't called by anything. In order to get the package to only install