Puppet users - Aug 2009 - installing different versions of packages (APT)

I have debian lenny  puppet clients who use two repositories of
packages, the main from debian OS, and another with some new deb
files.

The problem?

I have two versions of the same package, for example:
collectd-4.4.2 from debian formally repository and
collectd-4-7.2 from the other repository (collectd latest version).

My question:

How can I  configure, in puppetmaster,  the packages resources to
force my puppet clients to use the latest version or any other version
avalilable?

regards,
Israel

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Use ensure => latest to install the newest version. Use ensure => 
"version", e.g. ensure => "4-7.2", to install a specific
version of a
package. See http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#id374 
for details.

-Eric

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, ELTigre wrote:
> 
> I have debian lenny  puppet clients who use two repositories of
> packages, the main from debian OS, and another with some new deb
> files.
> 
> The problem?
> 
> I have two versions of the same package, for example:
> collectd-4.4.2 from debian formally repository and
> collectd-4-7.2 from the other repository (collectd latest version).
> 
> My question:
> 
> How can I  configure, in puppetmaster,  the packages resources to
> force my puppet clients to use the latest version or any other version
> avalilable?
> 
> regards,
> Israel
> 
> > 
> 
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Thanks Eric for your soon answer.. BUT, suppose I have a puppet client
which has collectd 4.4.2 already installed and when it gets the new
catalog (to install version 4.7.2), puppet gives an error saying
there''s a conflict between collectd 4.7.2 and collectd 4.4.2 and it
does not install the latest version.   So, I tried to remove the old
package and install the newone in the same class but I couldn''t
because you can notcreate duplicate resources wutj the same name.


My question is:

How can I remove/purge the old collectd (4.4.2) and install the new
version using package resource?

On Aug 28, 3:06 pm, Eric Heydrick <eric...@speakeasy.net>
wrote:
> Use ensure => latest to install the newest version. Use ensure =>
> "version", e.g. ensure => "4-7.2", to install a
specific version of a
> package. Seehttp://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#id374
> for details.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, ELTigre wrote:
>
> > I have debian lenny  puppet clients who use two repositories of
> > packages, the main from debian OS, and another with some new deb
> > files.
>
> > The problem?
>
> > I have two versions of the same package, for example:
> > collectd-4.4.2 from debian formally repository and
> > collectd-4-7.2 from the other repository (collectd latest version).
>
> > My question:
>
> > How can I  configure, in puppetmaster,  the packages resources to
> > force my puppet clients to use the latest version or any other version
> > avalilable?
>
> > regards,
> > Israel
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You may use a syntax like this
package
{ "resource-name-aka-in-puppet-name":
       name =>"debian-package-name",
..................
}

Second check the naming of packages beacause your package probably has a 
different name than the debian one.


Silviu

ELTigre wrote:
> Thanks Eric for your soon answer.. BUT, suppose I have a puppet client
> which has collectd 4.4.2 already installed and when it gets the new
> catalog (to install version 4.7.2), puppet gives an error saying
> there''s a conflict between collectd 4.7.2 and collectd 4.4.2 and
it
> does not install the latest version.   So, I tried to remove the old
> package and install the newone in the same class but I couldn''t
> because you can notcreate duplicate resources wutj the same name.
>
>
> My question is:
>
> How can I remove/purge the old collectd (4.4.2) and install the new
> version using package resource?
>
> On Aug 28, 3:06 pm, Eric Heydrick <eric...@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>   
>> Use ensure => latest to install the newest version. Use ensure =>
>> "version", e.g. ensure => "4-7.2", to install a
specific version of a
>> package.
Seehttp://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#id374
>> for details.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, ELTigre wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I have debian lenny  puppet clients who use two repositories of
>>> packages, the main from debian OS, and another with some new deb
>>> files.
>>>       
>>> The problem?
>>>       
>>> I have two versions of the same package, for example:
>>> collectd-4.4.2 from debian formally repository and
>>> collectd-4-7.2 from the other repository (collectd latest version).
>>>       
>>> My question:
>>>       
>>> How can I  configure, in puppetmaster,  the packages resources to
>>> force my puppet clients to use the latest version or any other
version
>>> avalilable?
>>>       
>>> regards,
>>> Israel
>>>       
> >
>   

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