Open Stack

On 05/28/2015 10:25 AM, Martin Mágr wrote:
>
> On 05/28/2015 09:35 AM, Jan Provaznik wrote:
>> On 05/28/2015 01:10 AM, Steve Baker wrote:
>>> On 28/05/15 10:54, Richard Raseley wrote:
>>>> Zane Bitter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> One solution proposed was to do a yum update first but specifically
>>>>> exclude any packages that Puppet knows about (the --excludes flag
>>>>> appears sufficient for this); then follow that up with another Puppet
>>>>> run using ensure -> latest.
>>>>>
>>> My only concern with this approach is how do we collect and maintain the
>>> excludes list. Other than that it sounds reasonable.
>>
>> Why not swap the order? First run puppet using ensure=>latest which
>> updates/restarts everything Openstack depends on, then run yum/apt
>> update to update any remaining bits. You wouldn't need exclude list then.
>
> Isn't running Puppet with 'ensure => latest' enough? If packaging is
> correct all dependencies which will require update will be updated
> together with packages updated by Puppet. Am I missing something or the
> goal here is to update all packages?
>

Yes - the goal so to update all packages (so puppet only is not 
sufficient because it will not take care of packages which are not 
listed in puppet modules).