Re: [Puppet Users] dependencies

Todd Zullinger
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:25:04 -0000

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> What if we taught the yum provider to know about "yum
groupinstall" ?
>
> That way you could add packages into comps.xml and reference them
> together, which would also be faster than referencing each one by one.
>
> While it would not technically be a ''package'' this might
be also a
> decent workaround solution to the ''yum transactions are not
batched''
> problem.
>
> package {   "stuff"
>      ensure => latest,
>      is_group => true,
>      ...
> }
>
> Thoughts?

This might be nice for installs, but what happens when someone wants to
remove a group?  Using yum groupremove isn''t the inverse of
groupinstall.  This can easily remove far more than users intend,
especially if you don''t realize that groupremove isn''t the
exact
opposite of groupinstall.

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