Puppet

Another example of when being able to modify provider options would be when one wants to install a package from a repo that is disabled by default. For example, installing a package from rpmforge when rpmforge is disabled by default on my servers.

when running from the command line I can simply run:

yum —enablerepo=rpmforge install PACKAGE

however to do this in puppet I need o use an exec, or as ‘jamesturnbull’ suggested:

[3:52pm] package has a require and a notify metaparam [3:52pm] the requireis linked to a yumrepo resource that enables rpmforge [3:52pm] the notify is linked to a yumrepo resource that disables it

Both solutions work however having to use exec seems like a wast of the package{} command. Temporarily enabling the repo then triggering another resource is flawed too. Yums locking should prevent this, but what if someone on the server is doing a ‘yum update httpd’ while puppet has switched the rpmforge repo to enabled?

I’d love to see this feature. I’m tryign to install zabbix-server-mysql with apt. This package has in the list of it’s recommended packages mysql-server, which I specifically don’t want. For any other package I install I do want the recommended packages though. That requires me to add —no-install-recommends to the command line params,which is currently not possible. Cleanest workaround for me right now is an apt-get Exec.

What’s the status on this Feature? I can’t find any notes to explain why this was deleted. We’re finding that there are several different options that we’d like to be applying to apt instead of the defaults but we have to do it through exec which is rather inelegant. (it’s Feature 4800 that matches our request exactly, but that seems to be merged into this one)

It’s not deleted – it’s unplanned. This means it’s not something we’re immediately working on.

Richard, do you want to be changing which options are in use with different invocations of the package install?

Most of the time I’ve hit this problem it’s been much more maintainable to have those set up as global apt preferences. I had a hacky implementation of this feature, and it was really quite difficult to debug.

Can you outline what options you want to be able to set?