RPM circular dependencies have nothing to do with puppet.
I would rebuild the packages and fix the dependency issue, then the
problem would go away.
If you are not comfortable with rebuilding the packages then my
suggestion would be use an exec for this specific case doing a rpm -e
--allmatches --nodeps --force package1 package2
When you pass the package type an array of names, it iterates over
them instead of using the array values like a glob.
Again, not a puppet issue but a circular dependency issue.
-Jason
On May 1, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Ross McKerchar wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm trying to use puppet to remove some software on all our
> machines. The two rpm's I'm trying to remove are dependent on each
> other, that is rpm A requires rpm B and rpm B requires rpm A.
>
> The packages installed fine with puppet via yum (I just asked to
> install rpm A). Unfortunately puppet is calling "rpm -e", not "yum
> remove" to remove packages so just asking to remove rpm A causes a
> dependency error. I tried using "provider => yum" in the package
> definition but this was ignored.
>
> To get round this I specified both packages: "package { [rpmA,rpmB]:
> ensure => absent }". Unfortunately this doesn't work either. It
> appears puppet is running:
>
> for package in packages:
> rpm -e package
>
> As opposed to:
>
> rpm -e " ".join(packages)
>
> (no prizes for guessing what language I am most familiar with :)
>
> Consequently I am unable to use puppet to remove this package. I
> cant easily resort to an exec statement as I am doing the following:
>
> class software{
> package{ [a,b]: ensure => present }
> }
>
> class software::uninstall{
> package{ [a,b]: ensure => absent }
> }
>
> As this allows me per-node control over the removal.
>
> I'm using puppet 0.24.8 on rhel5.3.
>
> Can I get round this, or should I file a bug report?
>
> -ross
>
>
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