Hello Nigel, Yes, I'd prefer to have the ability to install a flat package integrated into the pkgdmg package provider. I attached a patch to http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/3378 .
The reason I went ahead and tried getting it working as a custom provider is that I really wanted to test the ability to have a custom provider, and have that as an example to write future custom providers. Thanks! -Roy On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Nigel Kersten <[email protected]> wrote: > Roy, is the longer term plan to instead patch pkgdmg so it looks at > the url and treats anything ending in .pkg as a flat package? > > I think that was your plan from the bug report, and that feels like a > much better idea to me. We should be able to have the one provider > work with pkg.dmg and pkg > > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Peter Meier wrote: > > > >> > >>> Puppet::Type.type(:package).provider(:flatpkg, :parent => > >>> Puppet::Provider::Package) do > >> > >> assuming that this is line 25 and that all the other providers use > >> Puppet::Type.type(:package).provide (without an r) this might be the > cause? > > > > Nailed it. > > > > -- > > My favorite was a professor at a University I Used To Be Associated > > With who claimed that our requirement of a non-alphabetic character in > > our passwords was an abridgement of his freedom of speech. > > -- Jacob Haller > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Luke Kanies -|- http://reductivelabs.com -|- +1(615)594-8199 > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<puppet-dev%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > > > > > > > > -- > nigel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<puppet-dev%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
