Puppet

If the forthcomming zypper-provider only supports to install packages it may come to such situations:

zypper install -y sendmail Loading repository data… Reading installed packages… Resolving package dependencies…

Problem: exim-4.69-70.13.x86_64 conflicts with sendmail provided by sendmail-8.14.3-50.9.i586 Solution 1: deinstallation of exim-4.69-70.13.x86_64 Solution 2: do not ask to install a solvable providing sendmail

Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [½/C]: c

Puppet will always choose to cancel, so there is no chance to successfully install sendmail. But if you would remove exim with zypper, zypper would automatically install sendmail or postfix. So with some control mechnanism in the puppet manifest it should be possible to install sendmail.

I went through some other package-providers to see how they solve the problem and came up with the following for zypper.rb:

#

def uninstall

 zypper :remove, '-y', @resource[:name]

end

#

I tested it by executing some puppetruns and packages could be removed successfully –> “puppetd[ 2088 ]: (//allgemein::sendmail/Package[sendmail]/ensure) removed”