On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm very new to Puppet, and new to this group, so I apologize if this has > already been covered. I did a quick search but didn't quickly find an > answer. > > I have a manifest that among other things installs a couple of packages. > These are not part of a repository, so I use puppet to send the rpm file to > the agent, then do the installation. This works just fine if the package is > not already installed. However, if the package is already installed, it > returns an error. This has to be a bug, right? > > package { 'jdk-6u16-linux-amd64.rpm': > ensure => installed, > source => "/usr/java/jdk-6u16-linux-amd64.rpm", > require => File['jdk-6u16-linux-amd64.rpm'], > }
>From the output below the name of the package should just simply be jdk instead of jdk-6u16..., use the command 'puppet resource package' and look at the output for a better idea. > the error: > > err: /Stage[main]/Ulbridge/Package[jdk-6u16-linux-amd64.rpm]/ensure: change > from absent to present failed: Execution of '/bin/rpm -i --oldpackage > /usr/java/jdk-6u16-linux-amd64.rpm' returned 1: package > jdk-1.6.0_16-fcs.x86_64 is already installed > > If I then have another file/package/whatever that depends on that package > (require => Package['jdk-6u16-linux-amd64.rpm']) it will fail because the > package errored out. This isn't by design, is it? How do I get around it? HTH, Nan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
