On Thursday, July 26, 2012 9:57:27 AM UTC-5, Michael Stanhke wrote:
>
> Did something else pull that package in as a dependency? 
>

That is what I'm inclined to think, Matthew's denial notwithstanding.  It 
is at any rate exactly the behavior that would be expected if some other 
package were installed or updated that required newer versions of the 
packages in question.  Puppet knows about and logs only the package it 
actually requests.

Furthermore, it does not follow from the failure to install the one new 
package that no other packages were updated in that run.  If yum performed 
dependency resolution successfully and download all the needed packages, 
then it would have started installs.  The requested package will always be 
installed last, because it depends directly or indirectly on everything 
else.  If one of the installs fails then yum will fail, but any packages 
that were successfully installed before the failure will remain installed.

This is all a good argument for maintaining your own repositories.  If you 
control the packages available for installation then you don't need to 
worry (as much) about unwanted updates.


John

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