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Add exclude to existing yum repo configuration with puppet

I'm using puppet for managing configuration a bunch of CentOS 5 servers. I would like to add a some package exclusions to the CentOS base yum repo configuration. Is there a way to do this with puppet?

I am going to use the remi repo version of some packages and want to exclude the base versions from yum. To enable remi I have a yumrepo resource defined.

Solution

  • You can use exclude parameter in yumrepo

    yumrepo { 'centos_base' :
    baseurl => "...",
    enabled => 1,
    priority => 1,
    exclude => "package-name",
}

    You can also require a particular yumrepo when installing a package.

    package { "package-name" :
  ensure => installed,
  require => Yumrepo["RemiRepo"],
}