Jira (PUP-1217) yum provider + package groups giving unnecessary errors

[William Van Hevelingen (JIRA)]

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William Van Hevelingen commented on an issue   Re: yum provider + package groups giving unnecessary errors This is the workaround we have been using for yum groupinstall. define redhat::group ( $ensure = 'present' ) { case $ensure { 'present': { exec { "redhat::group::${name}": unless => "/usr/bin/yum grouplist \"${name}\" | /bin/grep \"^Installed [Gg]roups\"", command => "/usr/bin/yum -y groupinstall \"${name}\"", provider => 'shell', } } 'absent': { fail("Please don't try and purge package groups") } default: { fail("Invalid state for package group") } } } Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1217 yum provider + package groups giving unnecessary errors We are using convenient package groups on rhel5.5. For instance, package group @base-x will automatically install X related packages. The yum provider is throwing "Could not find package" errors although the packages of this group have been successfully installed. The self.query check of the rpm parent class fails because rpm can not handle yum package... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.