Hi John
That is a very interesting solution!
I had to look up what "provider" and "refreshonly" did. They seam to be
very useful for other situations as well!
Thanks =)
Hugs,
Sandra
On Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:04:32 UTC+2, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:48:04 AM UTC-5, Sandra Schlichting wrote:
>>
>> Hi all =)
>>
>> I would like to purge the following packages
>>
>> network-manager
>>
>> network-manager-gnome
>>
>> network-manager-pptp
>>
>> network-manager-pptp-gnome
>>
>>
>> but the problem is, that I suppose a reboot is required for the NIC's no
>> longer to be manged by network-manager?
>>
>>
>> How would you work around this?
>>
>>
> Like Krzysztof, I'm not certain that a reboot is required. On the other
> hand, Network Manager is a tricky and sometimes pesky little beast, so
> maybe a reboot really is required. I can't advise you on avoiding a
> reboot, but if you really do need one, then you can probably make Puppet
> schedule one using something along these lines:
>
> exec { 'reboot-soon':
> command => '/usr/bin/nohup /sbin/shutdown -r +5 &',
> provider => 'sh',
> subscribe => Package['network-manager'],
> refreshonly => true,
> }
>
> That will reboot the system whenever Puppet changes the 'network-manager'
> package (which must already have been declared elsewhere). The five-minute
> delay designated by the "+5" argument serves two purposes:
>
> 1. To allow the Puppet run to complete before the reboot (see also
> below)
> 2. To give an admin who happens to be logged in a chance to cancel the
> restart
>
> With respect to the delay time, there is an unavoidable race condition
> here, because you can't really predict how much longer Puppet will take to
> finish up, especially if the system is heavily loaded. You can largely
> mitigate that, however, by ensuring that Exec['reboot-soon'] is applied
> after all other resources. Although I'm not a great fan of run stages,
> this looks like a good use case for them.
>
>
> John
>
>
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