Thank you so much. That solved my problem.
On Thursday, March 8, 2012 4:05:05 PM UTC-6, Mike 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'],
> }
>
> 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?
>
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