purged works - thanks!
On Jun 30, 1:58 am, Peter Meier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> > I also noticed this today.
> > Is there a better yum provider?
> > I want to ensure cups and all the crap it comes with is absent.
> > puppet calls rpm -e cups and fails on dependencies check.
>
> > thanks for any tips
>
> have a look at the code @ lib/puppet/provider/package/yum.rb
>
> you'll see that the yum provider inherits from the rpm provider and
> doesn't override the uninstall/absent method. Hence it uses the one from
> the rpm provider.
>
> So you could add an overrided method of uninstall. (and propose it to
> the -dev list?!)
>
> While looking at the code
> andhttp://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#packageyou'll
> also see that the yum provider is purgeable and that the yum provider
> has an own purge method.
> So if this would fit your needs you can set ensure to purged and it
> would use yum -y erase $package
>
> cheers pete
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