Puppet users - Aug 2013 - How to handle apt-get -f install -y with Puppet

Hi All,

I''m trying to install packages using the dpkg provider on Ubuntu that
leave
the package unconfigured because of missing dependencies. After installing 
all packages, I need to run "apt-get -f install -y" to fix the 
dependencies. Now with puppet I did not find a way to do so yet. 

I''m trying to do the following:
......
package { "mypackage":
    provider => dpkg,
    ensure => installed,
    source => "/tmp/mypkg/mypackage.deb",
    before => Exec[''apt-get fix''],
  }
  exec { "apt-get fix":
    command => "/usr/bin/apt-get -f install -y",
  }
......

But dpkg exits with a failure, and therefore the exec of "apt-get -f 
install -y" is skipped because of failed (puppet) dependencies.

Error: /Stage[main]/mymodule::mypkg/Package[mypackage]/ensure: change from 
absent to present failed: Execution of ''/usr/bin/dpkg --force-confold
-i
/tmp/mypkg/mypackage.deb'' returned 1: (Reading database ... 84559 files
and
directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ..... (using .../mypackage.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mypackage ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ....: etc

.....
Warning: /Stage[main]/Vswitch::Mypkg/Exec[apt-get fix]: Skipping because of 
failed dependencies

Any ideas on how I can make this work? can I somehow ignore the return 
code? Is there an great elegant way to work around this?

Many thanks! Any help is really appreciated.
Yves


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Just come across this post after needing to do the exact same thing.  I can 
get it to run independently by making the exec a require of the package, 
but then it will always run itself as well and I only want to run this exec 
after the package (but as you said the package fails due to the 
dependancies).

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I ran into this too, and I think this is working for me:

  exec { ''apt-get-fix'':
    command => "/usr/bin/apt-get -f -y install",
    unless  => "/usr/bin/apt-get check",
  }

I''m still testing, but it''s looking good right now.

Bryce

On Friday, August 23, 2013 10:37:41 PM UTC-7, Andy Coates
wrote:
>
> Just come across this post after needing to do the exact same thing.  I 
> can get it to run independently by making the exec a require of the 
> package, but then it will always run itself as well and I only want to run 
> this exec after the package (but as you said the package fails due to the 
> dependancies).
>
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