[chef] Re: Providing specific version numbers of packages to install with yum...

[Adam Jacob < >]

Do you have the 'version' statement in the package resource?

Adam

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Brad Knowles 
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> Folks,
>
> My Google-Fu seems to be failing me.  I know that Chef has a way to specify 
> versions of cookbooks that have to be loaded, but I can't seem to figure 
> out how to tell Chef to insist on a certain version (or later) of a 
> particular package to be installed.
>
> The particular case that I have is that Erlang R12B-5 is in the main EPEL 
> repo, but R14B is in the EPEL Erlang repo, and I have both repos installed 
> on a target machine.  When I go to install Erlang, it appears that the "yum 
> info" command is being done early in the process before the EPEL Erlang 
> repo has been added, so it comes back and thinks that it should install 
> R12B-5.  When yum is finally told to actually install this version, it gets 
> part way through and discovers that the EPEL Erlang repo is also available 
> and has a later version, and then it proceeds to only do a partial install 
> of the R14B stuff that is required.
>
> Needless to say, this leaves the machine very confused and in a 
> non-workable state with regards to Erlang, which keeps RabbitMQ from being 
> installed.
>
>
> I know that I can run my own repo and include only the versions of Erlang 
> that I want to have in that repo, but until I get to that point I need a 
> way to either tell yum that the EPEL Erlang repo should have more priority 
> over the main EPEL repo, or I need a way to tell yum that it should 
> explicitly install R14B and bail out if it cannot do so.  This split 
> version install between R12B-5 and R14B isn't going to work.  In theory, 
> yum should be smart enough to always install the latest version and only 
> that version, but it seems that something is getting seriously hosed.
>
> If all these problems need to be fixed in the yum LWRPs, are the updated 
> cookbooks for that available outside of waiting for Chef 0.10.6?  Or am I 
> just screwed?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Brad Knowles 
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