Thanks all for the comments, I noticed that there is an open request for this: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2866
@John: both rpms are x86_64 Thanks On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:27 AM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org>wrote: > > > On Dec 22, 12:36 am, "Tony G." <tony...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Running it manually I got: > > > > 1. /usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install nrpe_custom-01.1-10 > > Package matching nrpe_custom-01.1-10.x86_64 already installed. Checking > for > > update. > > > > Which is not true, but for some reason yum "believes" it is already > > installed > > Do you have both i386 and x86_64 versions of the package installed? > Perhaps different versions of the two? Puppet does not account very > well for packages that differ only in architecture. > > In any case, if yum's response there is indeed erroneous then you > should work out your yum problems before continuing to wrangle Puppet. > > > Then Puppet after matching the versions complains with the Error saying > the > > update didn't happen. > > > > From my point of view this is an issue with yum that is not installing > the > > version defined in puppet. > > And if it is indeed a yum failure, then we can't be much help here. > Indeed, having followed the thread up to now, I don't think I need to > qualify that: there's not much we can do for you. These are some of > the factors in play: > > 1) By default, yum does not support package downgrading. You need to > install a plugin AND provide appropriate command line options to > persuade it to downgrade packages. > > 2) Regardless of your yum plugins, Puppet is not issuing the options > that would be needed to enable downgrading. > > 3) Downgrading isn't especially safe in general. > > > My concern is that Puppet states that the handling of packages via yum is > > versionable < > http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#id70>(*The > > provider is capable of interrogating the package database for installed > > version(s), and can select which out of a set of available versions of a > > package to install if asked*), which I assumed puppet will find the way > to > > exec yum to update *or downgrade* as in this case, but I guess I took > that > > too literal, and perhaps that is the definition of what a versionable > > package handler as YUM does, but not exactly with Puppet. > > Yes, I think you read too much into that. I also think that Puppet > could provide better support than it currently does. For instance, it > could perhaps add an "allow_downgrade" parameter to the package type > that, for the yum provider, would cause "--allow-downgrade" to be > added to the yum command line. I'm not sure what that would have to > do for other versionable package providers, though. > > > > > Wish I'll be wrong, but seems like I won't be able to downgrade packages > via > > yum. > > Supposing that you mean "via Puppet", I suspect you're right for now. > Perhaps you would consider filing a feature request ticket? > > Best, > > John > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > -- Tony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
