Puppet users - Apr 2011 - Advice for managing package versions with CentOS/yum

Hi all, looking for some general advice for how people are doing
this...

We have some packages that *must* be kept at a particular version
(e.g. httpd, php) because our code and configurations depend on it.
As far as I''m aware, in puppet, the only parameter that can be passed
to a package type describing version information is the ensure
directive, i.e. something like:

package { "httpd":
        ensure => "2.2.3-43.el5.centos",
}

Which means that we must specify both package version (2.2.3) *and*
RPM release version (43) to be installed.  This seems to work fine,
except when CentOS branches to a new release, and suddenly my specific
RPM release is not available in the new yum repo anymore (current
version is now httpd-2.2.3-45.el5.centos).

Anyone have any advice for dealing with this?  I''d rather not mirror
the entire CentOS-Base repository locally at version 5.5 just so my
few packages are available...

Thanks!

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:02 PM, elliott <misteresauce@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, looking for some general advice for how people are doing
> this...
>
> We have some packages that *must* be kept at a particular version
> (e.g. httpd, php) because our code and configurations depend on it.
> As far as I''m aware, in puppet, the only parameter that can be
passed
> to a package type describing version information is the ensure
> directive, i.e. something like:
>
> package { "httpd":
>        ensure => "2.2.3-43.el5.centos",
> }
>
> Which means that we must specify both package version (2.2.3) *and*
> RPM release version (43) to be installed.  This seems to work fine,
> except when CentOS branches to a new release, and suddenly my specific
> RPM release is not available in the new yum repo anymore (current
> version is now httpd-2.2.3-45.el5.centos).
>
> Anyone have any advice for dealing with this?  I''d rather not
mirror
> the entire CentOS-Base repository locally at version 5.5 just so my
> few packages are available...
>
You can specify a package source, that isn''t from a repo. IE: You can
specify the RPM package provider, and specify the source for the RPMs in
question from a URL or local file.

See the following for more details:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#package

-Brian

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On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:02:56 -0700 (PDT)
elliott elliott wrote:

Hi,
> Anyone have any advice for dealing with this?  I''d rather not
mirror
> the entire CentOS-Base repository locally at version 5.5 just so my
> few packages are available...
why don''t you mirror locally those few packages and add an exclude to
CentOS repos? 

* So you''ll have your local repo with your desired
versions, and CentOs repos but excluding your particualr packages.
 
We mirror all repos and use "latest" for most of the packages.
> Thanks!
Cheers,
Arnau

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