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

[AJ Christensen < >]

On 22 October 2011 15:48, Brad Knowles 
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 wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Adam Jacob wrote:
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>> Do you have the 'version' statement in the package resource?
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> For yum, I don't think so.  The only things I have in 
> cookbooks/yum/resources are key.rb and repository.rb.  Stripping out the 
> .svn hierarchies, the README.md, any .json files, and all comments in the 
> remaining files, I don't find many references to the word "version" 
> anywhere in the yum cookbook:
>
> % grep -ir version * | egrep -vi '(.svn|README|.json|:#)'
> attributes/default.rb:default['yum']['epel_release'] = case 
> node['platform_version'].to_i
> metadata.rb:version           "0.1.3"
> providers/key.rb:    if node[:platform_version].to_i <= 5
> providers/key.rb:    elsif node[:platform_version].to_i >= 6
> recipes/epel.rb:major = node['platform_version'].to_i
> recipes/yum.rb:  source "yum-rhel#{node[:platform_version].to_i}.conf.erb"
>
>
> Or did I completely misunderstand the question somehow?

Indeed.

yum_package "someshit" do
  version "1.2.3-whatever"
end

–AJ

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> Thanks!
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> Brad Knowles 
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