Puppet users - Jan 2012 - I just discovered I cannot resource-purge yumrepos -- Is there another way ?

I added a bunch of yumrepo resources to my node definitions and thought
I''d finish it with a

resources { ''yumrepo'': purge => true, }

But when I tried to run it, I get this:

err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter purge failed: Purging is only supported
on types that accept ''ensure'' at
/etc/puppet/manifests/nodes/....

Is there an alternative, non-messy way to do what that statement should do for
me ?


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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 03:09:49PM +0000, Dan White
wrote:
> I added a bunch of yumrepo resources to my node definitions and thought
I''d finish it with a
> 
> resources { ''yumrepo'': purge => true, }
> 
> But when I tried to run it, I get this:
> 
> err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter purge failed: Purging is only
supported on types that accept ''ensure'' at
/etc/puppet/manifests/nodes/....
> 
While I don''t have a workaround for you, there is a featurerequest to
accomplish resource purging

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/9293

-Stefan

That the problem is known is a comfort.

I will trash my way around it one way or another, and if I come up with any
neato tricks for removal of a repo, I will contact the list and/or the Feature
Assignee :)

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

----- Stefan Schulte <stefan.schulte@taunusstein.net>
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 03:09:49PM +0000, Dan White wrote:
> > I added a bunch of yumrepo resources to my node definitions and
thought I''d finish it with a
> > 
> > resources { ''yumrepo'': purge => true, }
> > 
> > But when I tried to run it, I get this:
> > 
> > err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter purge failed: Purging is only
supported on types that accept ''ensure'' at
/etc/puppet/manifests/nodes/....
> > 
> 
> While I don''t have a workaround for you, there is a featurerequest
to
> accomplish resource purging
> 
> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/9293
> 
> -Stefan
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This is sort of hackish but not too bad... set a list of file resources 
that are the resultant names of the /etc/yum.repos.d/<blah>.repo files,
and
purge everything else in that directory.

class yum::cleanup {
    # shorthand for the repo directory
    $rd = "/etc/yum.repos.d"

    # clean the yum.repos.d directory of any non-managed files
    file { "$rd": ensure => directory, purge => true, recurse
=> true }

    # NOTE: If you add a new yumrepo, make a matching file resource here!
    file { [ "$rd/local.repo",
             "$rd/os.repo",
             "$rd/base.repo", ] : 
                ensure => present, 
         }

}

class yum::repositories {
    require yum::cleanup

    yumrepo { "os"

   .... etc ...

    }

}

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Thank you.
Simple enough to ignore the hack-ish nature :)

Looks like it will do the job

All it needs are a few yum commands to run whenever the file changes to refresh
the local databse.

I will tinker with that and report back to the list.

Pay It Forward !
Share & Enjoy !

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universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

----- Eric Sorenson <eric.sorenson@me.com> wrote:
> This is sort of hackish but not too bad... set a list of file resources 
> that are the resultant names of the /etc/yum.repos.d/<blah>.repo
files, and
> purge everything else in that directory.
> 
> class yum::cleanup {
>     # shorthand for the repo directory
>     $rd = "/etc/yum.repos.d"
> 
>     # clean the yum.repos.d directory of any non-managed files
>     file { "$rd": ensure => directory, purge => true,
recurse => true }
> 
>     # NOTE: If you add a new yumrepo, make a matching file resource here!
>     file { [ "$rd/local.repo",
>              "$rd/os.repo",
>              "$rd/base.repo", ] : 
>                 ensure => present, 
>          }
> 
> }
> 
> class yum::repositories {
>     require yum::cleanup
> 
>     yumrepo { "os"
> 
>    .... etc ...
> 
>     }
> 
> }
> 
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