Consider using a different yum module

[juniorsysadmin]

Perhaps the one in this namespace

[amette]

I would highly appreciate that as well. I have many servers that run PHP as well as elastic (former elasticsearch). I can't configure those machines via puppet, because the example42-yum dependency in this module clashes with the puppet-yum one in the elastic/elasticsearch puppet module.

[amette]

Having dug into the code a bit, it looks to me like the example42-yum could be removed and completely substituted by the yumrepo{} puppet resource, since adding a repository seems to be the only thing that example42-yum is being used for. Using the yumrepo resource seems cleaner (less deps, etc.). I sadly don't have any yum-based machine available for testing though.

[bluridium]

Agreed. The existing redhat.pp also hardcodes the remi56 repo so never allows you to install a different version.

I confirmed in a fork that yumrepo{} works fine and completely removes the dependence on example42-yum.

[danielsreichenbach]

Would highly agree with using https://forge.puppet.com/puppet/yum instead. example42-yum also introduces conflicts with many other modules expecting the yum module from voxpupuli.

[mbrodala]

Same here, I even had to fork this repository to drop this dependency. We are on Ubuntu thus don't need YUM anyways.