Puppet users - Sep 2010 - Installing 32bit rpms (using up2date on RHEL4) on a 64bit OS?

How do you do it with puppet?
I''m attempting to automate the install of an Oracle RAC and the
installer requires a whole raft of 32bit rpms even on a 64bit OS.

Easy enough via:  up2date --arch i386 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs

But I can''t find any option to pass the --arch option to the up2date
puppet package provider?

There have been previous posts on this topic and people seem to use a
kludgy ''exec'' to get around this.
I want dependency resolution so ''exec'' is not a good option.

Regards,

Geoff
Linuxsolve Ltd.

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I''ve not actually tried but I would think you should be able to do
something like:

package {
  "foo.i386": { ensure => latest ; }
}

I know yum understands the syntax of: yum install foo.i386 (or foo.x86_64).

Cheers,
Ryan

On 9/16/2010 6:05 AM, Geoff wrote:
> How do you do it with puppet?
> I''m attempting to automate the install of an Oracle RAC and the
> installer requires a whole raft of 32bit rpms even on a 64bit OS.
>
> Easy enough via:  up2date --arch i386 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs
>
> But I can''t find any option to pass the --arch option to the
up2date
> puppet package provider?
>
> There have been previous posts on this topic and people seem to use a
> kludgy ''exec'' to get around this.
> I want dependency resolution so ''exec'' is not a good
option.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geoff
> Linuxsolve Ltd.
>
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:24:38 -0700, Ryan Dooley <ryan.dooley@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I''ve not actually tried but I would think you should be able to do
> something like:
> 
> package {
>   "foo.i386": { ensure => latest ; }
> }
> 
> I know yum understands the syntax of: yum install foo.i386 (or
foo.x86_64).
> 
> Cheers,
> Ryan
The problem is, up2date doesn''t understand the package.arch syntax,
only
yum does. There is a bug filed on this, and I''ve submitted a patch to
make
the up2date provider recognize the package.arch naming, and to split it off
so it will do up2date --arch instead - just waiting for it to be accepted
(which I don''t think has happened yet) and applied to the next version
release.

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Hi Geoff,

On 16/09/10 11:05 PM, Geoff wrote:
> I''m attempting to automate the install of an Oracle RAC and the
> installer requires a whole raft of 32bit rpms even on a 64bit OS.
Why not use the oracle-validated[1] metapackage to pull in all the 
requirements? It''s much simpler.

Cheers,
Avi


[1] http://oss.oracle.com/el5/oracle-validated/

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