This is where my mileage varies from yours; I would have the rpm install files and leave the data munging to an exec or type/provider where the error will show through to puppet. I don't see a puppet issue here, in the same manner that a bug in an init script is not a puppet service (type) issue.
I've never been on board the do-complicated-things-in-rpms train and your experience is why. On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:51:10AM -0700, Raul Macian wrote: > I have a problem that starts to make me think that puppet is not usable to > install packages. I will explain: > There is a common situation when you put some code on the %post when > creating rpm. In my case I am executing some db migrations after the > installation has been performed. The problems rises when something goes > wrong in the scriptlet because the yum command will ignore the failure end > exits with a succesful code. To add more complexity the yum provider > performs a yum -q command, that means no output on your logs. So you don't > know if the installation has ended ok or not. > Here explains some things exposed > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569930 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [1][email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > > [2]https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/341271db-3ac7-4330-ba23-4dd6a1f51952%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit [3]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/341271db-3ac7-4330-ba23-4dd6a1f51952%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > 3. https://groups.google.com/d/optout -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/20140702172128.GA3865%40iniquitous.heresiarch.ca. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
