I've given up on cf3's yum package management. I initially used package_method "yum," which worked fine ... until my package list got too long, and it broke (I tried putting my packages into two lists, no luck there.) I switched to "yum_rpm," which worked fine, until suddenly it stopped installing architectures other than the default (we require both architectures for a lot of things.) I was unable to get package removal to work at all with either method. I've found these issues particularly difficult to troubleshoot with verbose output, and after spending a reasonable amount of time on it, reverted back to installing our packages at kickstart time.
This is on Redhat 6 systems, and I'm not sure how much of the problems are from yum, not cf3 ... Redhat has apparently gone from "always install every architecture unless told to install a specific version" to "make it as hard as possible to install anything in addition to x86_64" (as far as I can tell, it is impossible to create a package group that will install anything other than x86_64 on 64-bit systems, and the only way I was able to reliably get all architectures of the applicable packages installed was to enumerate packages by architecture.) I wish I had more data points and whatnot on this, but all of it went down under circumstances that weren't exactly leisurely. On May 6, 2011, at 10:14 AM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: Re: Redhat Patching (update) using yum_rpm or yum via cfEngine. > Author: debheller > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,21796,21813#msg-21813 > > Yeah, understood. There is some package handling available, but not in the > way you're looking for - which seems to be Linux-centric. Have you seen this? > > http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-solutions.html#Add-software-packages-to-the-system > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
