Puppet users - May 2008 - how to force a cycle package dependancy

Hi I''m trying to ensure ypbind and yp-tools are not installed BUT they
one of the rare group of rpms that require each other.

I have

        package { "yp-tools":
                ensure => absent,
                require => Package["ypbind"],
        }
        package { "ypbind":
                ensure => absent,
                require => Package["yp-tools"],
        }

but of course get in puppet:

May 27 10:06:17 puppetd[14063]: Could not apply complete catalog:
Found dependency cycles in the following relationships:
Package[ypbind] => Package[yp-tools], Package[ypbind] =>
Package[portmap], Package[yp-tools] => Package[ypbind]

I assume the only method is then use exec to execute the rpm remove?



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The work around I just did:

        # remove old yp-tools and ypbind since they both depending
upon each other
        exec { "remove-yp-tools_ypbind":
                name      => "rpm -e yp-tools ypbind",
                logoutput => true,
                onlyif    => "rpm -q yp-tools ypbind",
        }

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Larry Ludwig wrote:
> Hi I''m trying to ensure ypbind and yp-tools are not installed BUT
they
> one of the rare group of rpms that require each other.
> 
> I have
> 
>         package { "yp-tools":
>                 ensure => absent,
>                 require => Package["ypbind"],
>         }
>         package { "ypbind":
>                 ensure => absent,
>                 require => Package["yp-tools"],
>         }
> 
> but of course get in puppet:
> 
> May 27 10:06:17 puppetd[14063]: Could not apply complete catalog:
> Found dependency cycles in the following relationships:
> Package[ypbind] => Package[yp-tools], Package[ypbind] =>
> Package[portmap], Package[yp-tools] => Package[ypbind]
Are you using the yum provider?  If so, just leave the requires out of puppet 
completely.  Puppet will pick one to do first, and yum should handle 
automatically pulling in all of the required dependencies.  When puppet then 
goes to the other package, it should already be installed as a yum dependency 
from the previous one, and be all set already.

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