On Monday, July 7, 2014 3:54:50 PM UTC-5, Jonathan Rose wrote:
>
> I tried fiddling around with a puppet module I am writing to install RPM's
> both from repository as well as local resources (e.g. http) and tried the
> advise noted by David Caro, but I'm still getting error messages:
>
> Skipping.
> Error: Nothing to do
> returned 1: Cannot open:
>
>
David's advice is unfortunately un-sound. You do not normally need to use
the "name" parameter with the 'yum' package provider, because yum normally
uses the package name as the desired RPM name. That is, simply:
package { 'my-package-name':
ensure => 'installed',
}
Note that that's normally just the *package* name as it will be recorded in
the RPM database, not the RPM filename. But that only works if the
specified package is in one of the yum package repositories that your
system is already configured to use. Your objective here appears to be to
configure a package repository that may not already be configured, and for
that you cannot use the 'yum' provider at all -- it's simply not the way
Yum works.
If you want to manage an RPM package from a specific local or http[s]
source that you specify, then you need to ensure that the 'rpm' provider be
used. On most systems that use RPMs, the default provider is something
more flexible, such as 'yum', so you need to declare the 'rpm' provider
specifically if you want to use it (i.e. what Mark wrote). Note also
Jonathan's comments about package dependencies, which are the reason other
providers are preferred to the plain 'rpm' provider for most purposes.
Dependencies should not be an issue for your particular case, so probably
this will work:
package { 'puppetlabs-release':
ensure => 'installed',
source => 'https://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/x86_64/puppetlabs-
release-6-5.noarch.rpm',
provider => 'rpm'
}
John
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