centos mysql5.5 install via puppet - mysql

Question

(This is a cross-post from ask.puppetlabs.com)
I am setting up a centos6.4 VM using Vagrant and Puppet. First off, my familiarity is with Debian linux and also I am new to Puppet, so sorry if I am missing something basic...
I am using the mysql module from puppetlabs, and the default version of mysql installed is 5.1 but I'd like to install 5.5.
From this post, it looks like I need to grab mysql5.5 from some extra repos,
My Puppetfile looks like:
forge "http://forge.puppetlabs.com"
mod 'puppetlabs/stdlib'
mod 'puppetlabs/apache'
mod 'puppetlabs/mysql'
I added a yumrepo declaration
yumrepo {
'epel':
descr => 'Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch',
enabled => "1",
gpgcheck => "1",
failovermethod => 'priority',
gpgkey => "http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm",
;
'remi':
descr => 'Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch',
enabled => "1",
gpgcheck => "1",
failovermethod => 'priority',
gpgkey => "http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm",
;
}
If I add package_ensure with the targeted version,
class { '::mysql::server':
package_ensure => "5.5.36-1.el6.remi",
}
I can see that puppet tries to install that package, but mysql5.1 has already been installed by that point and there are dependencies that conflict. I've tried searching for a good approach, but am not familiar enough with puppet yet to know what to look for.
Thanks for the help

Answer 1

first to install mysql 5.5 you have remove mysql 5.1 add the following lines init.pp and moreover epel repo will not not install 5.5 on your system you need to install it with rpm of mysql to install it with rpm use add the following lines in int.pp file
package { 'mysql-libs':
ensure => 'purged',
}
package { 'MySQL-server-5.5.8-1.rhel5.x86_64':
provider => 'rpm',
ensure => installed,
source => "/path_to_dir/MySQL-server-5.5.8-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm",
require => Package['mysql-libs'],
}