[chef] yum_package provider does not honor 'options "--disablerepo"' when searching available provides?

[Brad Knowles < >]

Folks,

So, for our upcoming production systems (CentOS 5.6 & chef-client 0.10.8), we 
have built our own local copy of monit 5.3.2 (5.3.2-1, to be precise), and 
put that on our internal repo.  We want to force our machines to use this 
explicit version of monit, and not anything else.  However, recently rpmforge 
posted 5.3.2-2, and now even though we try to lock down the explicit version 
we want, yum_package keeps trying to install monit-5.3.2-2.el5.rf instead of 
our own monit-5.3.2-1.x86_64.rpm.


Doing a "yum info monit" will come up with the reference to the rpmforge 
version, but at least there we can provide a "--disablerepo=rpmforge" and get 
it to find the version that we have on our internal repo server.

Trying to do the same thing within the yum_package provider fails, however -- 
when searching the available provides, it still finds monit-5.3.2-2.el5.rf 
(which is only on rpmforge), but then when it goes to try to install this 
version it will apparently honor the "--disablerepo=rpmforge" option, and 
then the package doesn't actually get installed.


Okay, so I could rebuild our version of the package (which I know works the 
way we want), and bump the version number.  That will work right up to the 
point where rpmforge does this to me again.  I'm looking for a better 
solution to this problem.  Any ideas?

-- 
Brad Knowles 
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