[Puppet Users] Undiserable kernel upgrade in Ubuntu

Hi,

linux-headers-server are metapackage. They always point to the latest real
package, eg linux-headers-2.6.32-41-server

That will cause puppet to always update the package to the latest version.

To prevent that, always refer to specific package name, eg.
linux-headers-2.6.32-41-server , not metapackage linux-headers-server


2012/4/25 Juan José Presa Rodal <[email protected]>

Ok, but then this response is unconsistent:

# puppet resource package linux-headers-server

package { 'linux-headers-server':
ensure => '2.6.32.41.48',
}

I thought that if ensure property wasn't "absent", package provider make
nothing...

Would not be that way more consistent behaviour?


El miércoles, 25 de abril de 2012 11:08:26 UTC+2, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
escribió:

Much depends on the package versioning. Given that declaration, the
agent will do nothing in the event that version 2.6.32.41.48 of a
package named 'linux-headers-server' is installed. If no package with
that name is installed, then Puppet will attempt to install the
specified version of it. If a different version is installed, then
Puppet will attempt to up/downgrade to the specified version.

I'm not very clear on Ubuntu package naming and versioning involved
here, but I'm suspicious that you may be mixing the two. Is 'linux-
headers-server' actually the *name* of the package you want, or is it
perhaps the name and version? (That is, could it refer to version
"server" of the "linux-headers" package?) The latter would constitute
an error in your manifest, but Puppet is not necessarily able to
recognize that.

You could consider running the agent in debug mode toget the actual
commands Puppet is issuing recorded in the client-side log. Look not
only at the package installation command, but also at the preceding
package query command. You would want also to refer to the
appropriate repository metadata for the package(s) you're looking at.


John