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

[Matthew Kent < >]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Jesse Campbell 
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 wrote:
> yum_package should be installing the specific version you asked for,
> when you specify a version... that sounds like a bug in itself.

So long as it's a yum_package :install and not an :upgrade I believe
it should. Be sure to pass a complete "1.1-el5" version string as
well. Please open a ticket if this proves not to be the case.

> 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).
>

No obsoletes processing quite yet: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2680

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