[Puppet Users] Yum Related Versioning Issue

2013-11-19 Thread Richie Rees
Hi All, Come to borrow some of your collective wisdom again, Seeing a problem installing an rpm using a fairly basic class on a RHEL 5 box using yum as the provider, I am seeing the following error message :- *Error: Could not update: Failed to update to version 5.35.0-3_el5 , got version

Re: [Puppet Users] Yum Related Versioning Issue

2013-11-19 Thread Richie Rees
) -- *From: *Richie Rees richard...@gmail.com javascript: *To: *puppet...@googlegroups.com javascript: *Sent: *Tuesday, November 19, 2013 4:48:48 AM *Subject: *[Puppet Users] Yum Related Versioning Issue Hi All, Come to borrow some of your collective wisdom again, Seeing a problem

[Puppet Users] Problems with Fact returning the version of an installed RPM.

2013-11-15 Thread Richie Rees
Hi, Have written what I think is a simple fact to return the version of an installed RPM, but when I use the returned variable its blank so perhaps someone can point me in the write direction, or somone might know a better way to do this. Here is the fact :- require 'facter'

Re: [Puppet Users] Problems with Fact returning the version of an installed RPM.

2013-11-15 Thread Richie Rees
/QueryFormat rpm -qa --queryformat '%{version}\n' rpm_name “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin Hobbes) -- *From: *Richie Rees richard

[Puppet Users] Puppet Templates to cope with potential multiple sessions settings in the config file

2013-11-04 Thread Richie Rees
Hi, Here is my dilemma, have a class that installs an rpm then copies over the configuration files. Static files are published as files, variable files are published using templates with variables provided from foreman smart variable. The binaries being installed can be used to create

[Puppet Users] Facts and Stored Configs

2013-11-01 Thread Richie Rees
So finally playing with PuppetDB and have to say its impressive. Planning on extending it slightly to be a CMDB. With that in mind, we produce test systems for developers to test the equipment they are developing on. So these systems are rapidly deployed then torn down. A requirement has been

[Puppet Users] Problems With Facts

2013-08-12 Thread Richie Rees
I have a problem with facts, running puppet and foreman as the ENC. When hosts are created in sample.com domain the facts are returned when they are created in testing,sample.com the facts are not returned I can see in the log that they are reaching the server and getting redirected to the

[Puppet Users] Edit the Kickscript

2013-06-12 Thread Richie Rees
My Foreman is now getting past creating a vm and doing the tftp config. When I look at the location in the pxeboot configuration http://foreman/unattended/provision is black. How do i edit the master template that looks at ? Additionally the initrd vmlinuz files are both 0 bytes, is there