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

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Jan 31, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Jesse Campbell wrote:

> yum_package should be installing the specific version you asked for,
> when you specify a version... that sounds like a bug in itself.
> Have you tried turning off obsoletes processing? I found that it was
> constantly messing me up for installing packages with puppet (haven't
> migrated that set of systems to chef yet).

Rackspace is totally b0rked right now (see 
<http://status.mosso.com/2012/01/cloud-sites-control-panel-provisioning-degraded.html>),
 but once I get something back that I can actually use, I'll take a look at 
the obsoletes processing and see if that helps.

Thanks!

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Brad Knowles 
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