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From: Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org>
To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: ports-mgmt/pkg
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 04:55:45PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 2016/04/05 11:28, Zsolt Ero wrote:
> > I don't know how those tools internally check the state of packages,
> > but anyone who self manages a server usually writes a long line of
> > "pkg install -y pkg1 pkg2 pkg3" in a script. I would think that 99% of
> > server deployment scripts are structured like this.
> > 
> > Those lines are used in the sense of "make sure that pkg1, pkg2 and
> > pkg3 are all installed after this command". Now the new change totally
> > breaks this behaviour.
> > 
> > Also, it breaks convention with known package managers from OS X or
> > the linux world, where ... install is usually used as "make sure that
> > ... is installed".
> > 
> > Even if FreeBSD believes that such a huge change is somehow justified
> > at a minor point release, it should be clearly communicated with the
> > community. I would strongly recommend going back to the pre-1.7 way of
> > "make sure that ... is installed" behaviour.
> > 
> > Since this is such a fresh change, I believe there will be many more
> > user reports coming in from broken install scripts soon.
> 
> Just a 'me too':
> 
> ==> sys-app-1: Error: Execution of '/usr/local/sbin/pkg install -qy
> nagios-plugins' returned 70:
> ==> sys-app-1: Error:
> /Stage[main]/Nrpe::Install/Package[nagios-plugins]/ensure: change from
> absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/local/sbin/pkg install -qy
> nagios-plugins' returned 70:
> 
> Puppet gets all confused now when it tries to install something that's
> already installed.  I'd much prefer it if the exit code in that
> situation was 'success.'

Can I see the relevent section of your puppet manifest?


Regards,
Brad Davis