I know that would be better option but it's not possible to do it at
this point (due to some non-technical issue). Is there anyway this can
be handled in puppet.
Thanks.
On Nov 5, 8:26 am, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote:
> On Nov 4, 3:28 pm, Bakul <bakul.ghug...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I'm trying to install 2 packages where 2nd packages replaces certain
> > files from first packages.
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> > package { "jboss":
> > provider => yum,
> > ensure => latest
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> > }
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> > package { "jboss-fix":
> > provider => yum,
> > ensure => latest
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> > }
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> > This seems to error out with message like "file ... from install of
> > jboss-fix conflicts with file from package jboss"
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> > On command line I can use "sudo yum -y install jboss jboss-fix" and it
> > works (or use rpm with "replacefiles" option for second rpm).
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> You should be able to configure yum to always act as if the -y switch
> had been passed. See the "assumeyes" parameter.
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> However, packages replacing others' files is a bad idea. That's why
> by default it requires confirmation or special options. I urge you to
> consider instead building packages that do not require such
> treatment. If you download the jboss source RPM, you should be able
> to quickly build an alternative jboss rpm that incorporates your
> changes. (Perhaps you would call *that* "jboss-fix".) You can make
> such an alternative package satisfy other packages' dependencies on
> jboss by appropriate use of the "Provides:" header.
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> Regards,
>
> John
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