Issue #2198 has been updated by Jo Rhett.
FYI, I'd like to note some experiences I had working on the package management for cfengine, which dealt with this situation properly. Honestly, I see no reason why the yum provider could not stack up the list of packages to add and the packages to remove and do them separately. This is what cfengine did, although we limited the size of the array because we found that rpm got stupid slow when the list was too big. What we did not implement at that time, was the idea of a group operation. This could easily be a generic thing on the resource. You could then run the entire list of installs or removes for a specific group. In reality, the "undefined" group would be one normal one, and then people could tag certain packages to be installed or uninstalled together with their own group name. This works very well for distributed groups, who can test that their package installs work properly together but aren't sure how they would relate to another group's changes. In short, very simply: 1. For package providers who can handle more than one package at a time (new attribute) build an array of things to remove. 2. Each "group" (or whatever) would have its own array. Each array would be processed independently. 3. Uninstalls and Installs from the same group would be processed together, before the same from another group. This change should be fairly simple to implement, consistent in usage across all of the providers (group/whatever could be used even by single-package providers), and be an improvement over what was available in cfengine2 -- which is ahead of puppet at this point in time. ---------------------------------------- Feature #2198: Install multiple package within a single call to the package manager https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2198#change-80045 Author: Stéphan Gorget Status: Investigating Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: transactions Target version: Affected Puppet version: 0.25.0 Keywords: communitypatch Branch: http://github.com/phantez/puppet/commit/51ff88c950c172e6060ae63c1c71968e7898b462 During the configuration applying process the package manager is called for each package installation. It is possible to reduce the number of calls to the package manager by gathering package installation and delayed some package installation. Naturally, this modification should not break the dependency graph. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
