martin f krafft <[email protected]> writes: > Every half hour, I see > > (//Node[debiannode]/base/Package[vim-nox]/ensure) ensure changed 'purged' > to 'present' > > from puppet on one of my hosts. No other warning (/var/log/puppet is > empty!?!??), so it took me a while to notice and then figure out what > was going on. > > The problem is that vim-nox does not exist on etch yet: > > E: Package vim-nox has no installation candidate > > It would be nice if puppet could emit a proper warning when apt-get > failed in this way.
I've asked Luke about this before, and I seem to recall that it was traced down to aptitude or apt-get not having a sane exit status so Puppet couldn't tell easily whether it had failed or not. And indeed that appears to be the case for aptitude: windlord:/root# aptitude install asdfafgbvadst Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "asdfafgbvadst" Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "asdfafgbvadst" No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done windlord:/root# echo $? 0 -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
