Switching provider to 'rpm' fixes the issue reported above, BUT creates
another issue in its place. Mind you, now the issue is with installing
OpenSSL and OpenSSL-Devel rpms that were patched against Heartbleed and
getting a mess of dependency errors. Any suggestions?
On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 9:27:19 AM UTC-4, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
>
> 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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