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How To Tell Puppet To Only Install Using Pip If A File Doesn't Exist

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http://serverfault.com – I am using Puppet to install some Python packages using pip. I'm using Puppet 2.7, so my package declarations look something like this: package { "carbon": require => Class["graphite::prereqs::install"], ensure => latest, provider => pip, } The problem is that this package and the graphite-web package both seem to have a bug that makes it possible to install the same version multiple times using pip. So if I type in sudo pip install carbon multiple times, pip will install it every time. I believ this is a bug with the packages. This bug seems to confuse Puppet too, b (HowTos)

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Submitted by grtyyu on 08/11/2012 – Made popular on 08/11/2012

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I am receiving the following error on a Puppet agent when trying to install multiple packages at once:

err: /Stage[main]/Template::Infrastructure/Package[undef]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install undef' returned 1: Error: Nothing to do

The code generating the error is:

$packages = [ 'qemu-kvm', 'qemu-kvm-tools', 'drbd84-tools', 'kmod-d

I'm configuring sudo module in puppet according to this code

class sudo { package { sudo: ensure => present, } if $operatingsystem == "Ubuntu" { package { "sudo-ldap": ensure => present, require => Package["sudo"], } } file { "/etc/sudoers": owner => "root", group => "root", mode => 0440, source => "puppet://$puppetserver/modules/sudo/

I am learning puppet and using this tool install puppet clients on nodes.

puppet node install --login=root --keyfile=~/.ssh/id_rsa --install-script puppet-enterprise --installer-payload ~/puppet/puppet-enterprise-2.7.0-ubuntu-12.04-amd64.tar.gz --installer-answers ~/puppet/installer.answers --puppetagent-certname puppet.node01.example.com 192.168.1.100

Everything seems to work ok.

I'm trying to install a slightly older version of puppet (2.7.8 as opposed to 2.7.9) for consistency purposes among a cluster of servers I manage. However, when I attempt to do so, apt-get throws a mysterious error:

xxxx@xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx:~$ sudo apt-get install puppet=2.7.8-1puppetlabs1 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

I am attempting to use Chocolatey ( http://chocolatey.org ) as a package provider for Puppet, but I continually get this error when running the Puppet agent on my Win 7 box.

I've been working on learning puppet and using it to set up a jenkins box.

Overview:

Just started using Puppet and used the following array with 'ensure' so a specific version of Apache is installed (rather than the latest) and its 'held'(which means it won't be upgraded on a standard apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version.

Problem:

When using the code below only the first value in the ensure array is taken into consideration by Puppet.

Cannot use puppet on mac osx 10.8, i can find it in /usr/bin/lib but display that when i launch it :

/usr/bin/puppet:3:in `require': no such file to load -- puppet/util/command_line (LoadError) from /usr/bin/puppet:3

Any idea ?

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