[chef] Re: Re: Fwd: Testing/feedback on Yum provider improvements

[Matthew Kent < >]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Jesse Nelson 
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 wrote:
> finally got around to being able to test this. the one issue i ran into is 
> an exception being thrown when i am trying to enforce the removal of a 
> package and that package isn't on the system (i.e. the desired sate)
>
>  package "badpackage" do
>    action :remove
>  end
>
> i will get an exception:
> Yum installed and available lists don't have a version of package 
> badpackage-1.2.3
>
> easy to just ignore failures, and i actually believe this is also the 
> behavior in 0.9.x  (tho not certain cause i've been running my own hacked 
> yum provider).
> seems to me there should be a check to see if the action was remove or not, 
> and ignore that its not available if it was asked to be removed.
>

Yes! Thanks! Somehow I missed this. I'll get a ticket in and a fix up 
tomorrow.

I also noticed another bug with :remove and the 'Provides' resolution
I added as part of this ticket

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2096

Right now it would needlessly get triggered for removed packages. So
thanks again :-)

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> On May 11, 2011, at 8:18 AM, Matthew Kent wrote:
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>> Looking for testers!
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Matthew Kent 
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>> Date: Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:17 AM
>> Subject: Testing/feedback on Yum provider improvements
>> To: 
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>> Hello!
>>
>> I've been working quite heavily on the Yum provider in 0.10 over the
>> past couple weeks and have reached a point where I'm looking for some
>> testing and feedback. The branch is at
>>
>> https://github.com/mdkent/chef/commits/yum-improvements
>>
>> For testing purposes the extent of the changes are confined to
>>
>> chef/lib/chef/monkey_patches/numeric.rb
>> chef/lib/chef/monkey_patches/string.rb
>> chef/lib/chef/provider/package/yum-dump.py
>> chef/lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb
>> chef/lib/chef/resource/yum_package.rb
>>
>> If anyone has a spare server and time to copy those overtop of an
>> existing gem install of 0.10 and give their cookbooks a whirl I'd be
>> *very* appreciative.
>>
>> As for the changes, notable yum_package improvements include:
>>
>> * YumCache speed improvements when installing/upgrading/removing
>> multiple packages - now only the installed packages are refreshed
>> after each action during a Chef client run. Also, data is now loaded
>> on demand - getting rid of a useless cache refresh at the end of the
>> Chef client run.
>> * Ability to flush the YumCache via a flush_cache [ :before, :after ]
>> attribute that will dump the cache before the current resource is
>> loaded and/or after a package is installed/upgraded/removed. This is
>> for users installing yum repositories as packages.
>> * Ability to downgrade packages via a allow_downgrade true/false
>> attribute that will, if necessary based on the candidate and installed
>> versions, allow a call to 'yum downgrade' rather than 'yum install' to
>> successfully complete the install.
>> * Ability to pass the package arch in the package_name like
>> "strace.i386" ('yum list' outputs package names like this)
>> * Improved error handling in parsing yum-dump.py output and package
>> version handling. We ensure that the version to install is actually
>> newer than the installed version.
>> * Nearly rewritten yum-dump.py with improved error handling and output 
>> options.
>> * Added some RPM related utility classes used in the improvements and
>> useful for future work.
>> * A whole ton of unit tests to cover (hopefully) all of the work,
>> including the fun to test YumCache itself.
>>
>> Ticket fix list:
>>
>> CHEF-1287: speed up yum provider
>> CHEF-1245: Yum package provider fails poorly when it encounters
>> unexpected output from yum-dump.py
>> CHEF-1063: yum query/yum-dump.py fails when a locally-compiled Python
>> is in $PATH
>> CHEF-2272: yum-dump.py - commas are valid in package names
>> CHEF-2280: general yum-dump.py improvements
>> CHEF-311: yum provider - better cache refresh
>> CHEF-2283: yum/rpm providers - rpm version handling
>> CHEF-1819: Chef isn't recognizing yum .x86_64 syntax
>> CHEF-2085: YumCache needs unit tests
>> CHEF-2301: general yum provider improvements
>> CHEF-2330: yum provider - allow flushing of cache
>> CHEF-1790: Modify package/yum.rb upgrade_package to support
>> "downgrade" in certain situations
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