On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 3:56 PM, ELTigre <igalva...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 12, 10:10 am, Chris Blumentritt <cblum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chirs,
>
> I only use debian lenny on my servers. I just want to create a class
> with all package from APT to keep them up2date all the time with this
> configuration (ensure => latest) and whenever I create a new server it
> install all theses packages.
>
> > The spirit of puppet is to install via the package resource. You could
> > write a shell script to install using a text file as a data source then
> use
> > the exec resource using onlyif to check to see if you need to run it.
> What
> How does "onlyif" fits here if I use exec? What should I check to
> prevent exec running every time puppet client get the catalog?
>
You would have test to see if a directory that a packages does not exist.
If it does not exist then install packages. This really is the wrong way
to go about it though since this would be a huge pain to do for more than a
few packages.
>
> > I would do is create a separate class in its own manifest file and do
> some
> > fancy searching and replacing (matching beginnings and endings of lines)
> > with your list of packages. Since you have so many packages I doubt the
> > resource will be more than one line. End up with something like:
> > package { "package_name": ensure => installed }
> Coul you explain me this, please? :-)
>
This really is the best way to go have the package resource handle this. It
will check to see if each package is installed without extra effort on your
part. I am not sure what you want to explain about this, here is a link to
the package documentation:
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#package
>
>
> > You might run into trouble here if you are using different distros of
> linux
> > or linux and freebsd as the package names may be different. You would
> get
> > the benefit of later being able to hit the file and change installed to
> > latest if you want update a specific package though.
> >
> > I have never heard of a file being used as a source for a resource but it
> is
> > an interesting thought. You might get away with an inline template to do
> > that but that would be dirty:
> >
> > package { inline_template("<%= filename.each_line.collect %>"):
> > require => File["filename"],
> > ensure => installed
> I'll test it and let you know.
>
> thanks a lot.
> regards,
> israel
> >
> > }
> >
> > I have no idea if the above will work and I doubt the erb is correct
> since
> > my ruby sucks.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:02 AM, ELTigre <igalva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > How can I install a lot (more than 800) of APT packages using an easy
> > > way in puppet? I mean, using some file.txt where I put there the
> > > packages I want to install and my package resource get the list . Is
> > > it possible? Or do I have to put all packages in the package resource?
> >
> > > regards,
> > > Israel.
> >
>
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