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, which is essentially just httpd + creat

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

2011-01-18 Thread Avi Miller
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, which is essentially just httpd + createrepo for RHEL5. This is about 2 seconds worth of w

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

2011-01-18 Thread Felix Frank
On 01/18/2011 04:55 PM, Marc Zampetti wrote: > Or is Puppet Labs saying that they really only want to design a system > that works with non-Red Hat derived Linux distros? Should I be looking > to rip out Puppet and find something that is more open to working with > my OS of choice, like Chef? What

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

2011-01-18 Thread Marc Zampetti
I agree with this sentiment, and feel that making this a "low" priority for Puppet Labs is somewhat strange. Like it or not, Red Hat Linux (or one of its off-shoots like CentOS) is one of the most popular versions in production. Package management is one of the most central and important things

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

2011-01-18 Thread Mike Lococo
On 01/17/2011 12:40 PM, Matt wrote: Unfortunately thats a limitation of RPM which has been worked around with YUM. YUM will do the resolution of dependencies if they are also in one of the repositories configured on the system. Unfortunately RedHat will blacklist systems that run yum too often

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

2011-01-17 Thread Matt
Unfortunately thats a limitation of RPM which has been worked around with YUM. YUM will do the resolution of dependencies if they are also in one of the repositories configured on the system. On Jan 13, 4:09 pm, donavan wrote: > On Jan 12, 1:45 pm, Stephane wrote: > > > You could do something li

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

2011-01-13 Thread donavan
On Jan 12, 1:45 pm, Stephane wrote: > You could do something like following: > $wantedpackages  = [ "perl-DBI", "perl-DBD-MySQL" ] > package { $wantedpackages: ensure => installed } > > In one call, we install 2 packages. Stephane, the problem is with requirements inside the rpms. If a.rpm requir

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

2011-01-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Stephane wrote: > You could do something like following: > $wantedpackages  = [ "perl-DBI", "perl-DBD-MySQL" ] > package { $wantedpackages: ensure => installed } > > In one call, we install 2 packages. That will actually create two resources that are installed sep

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

2011-01-13 Thread Stephane
You could do something like following: $wantedpackages = [ "perl-DBI", "perl-DBD-MySQL" ] package { $wantedpackages: ensure => installed } In one call, we install 2 packages. I hope it helps. -Stephane On Jan 11, 3:09 am, Adriana wrote: > Hello, > does anyone know if featurehttp://projects.pu

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

2011-01-11 Thread donavan
On Jan 11, 3:09 am, Adriana wrote: > Hello, > does anyone know if featurehttp://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2198 > had been implemented and how it is possible to use it? I don't think it's made it into the puppet codebase yet. It should be pretty simple to run the contributed patch though. --