Hi Mark, The machines I'm managing at the moment are using SLES9, so no zypper available for me yet. Eventually they will be upgraded to 11.
--Diego On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Mark Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, this will work around for now. What version of SuSE are you running. > Yast is a waste of space, but zypper is pretty good since version 11.1 > It can handle local media or remote repositories. > > Diego Zamboni wrote: >> Hi Mark, >> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: >>> You are correct. This never got implemented as everyone seems to be using >>> yum or some such repos these days. We can come cack to this in the next >>> weeks. >> >> Thanks for the reply. I am wondering now what do people use to manage >> software using cfengine on SuSE machines? I've done some searches but >> haven't found anything that interfaces properly with yast, for >> example. In my case, the package in question is an internal one that >> is not available in the repositories, hence the need to install it >> from a file (I guess a proper solution would be to set up an internal >> repository and use yast, but since it's only one package, it seems >> overkill for now). >> >> The workaround that I found is to specify the full path as part of >> package_name_convention: >> >> package_name_convention => >> "${localpackagefiles}/$(name)-$(version).$(arch).rpm"; >> >> This works fine for now, but I guess it would break if I try to do any >> operation besides "add", since it will try to use the full path for >> all operations (e.g. remove packages). >> >> Best regards, >> --Diego >> _______________________________________________ >> Help-cfengine mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > > -- > Mark Burgess > > ------------------------------------------------- > Professor of Network and System Administration > Oslo University College, Norway > > Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark > Office Telf : +47 22453272 > ------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
