On Oct 20, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Andrew S wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've just started deploying a puppet infrastructure, and have run > across what I'm sure is a common problem - third party software that > does not use the systems package manager, instead using their own > script/binary blob/etc. Now my environment doesn't have any NFS at > present (and I'm loath to add it for just this one purpose), and > though I could wget the file and checksum it I'd prefer to manage all > configuration content through puppet and it's filebuckets. My first > cut at doing this was an exec that required a file resource for the > installer, however this means the install package remains on the > system. Is there some method or trick I'm missing here? > > If not, I'm considering writing a provider for package that would > source the installer from a filebucket and run it, and potentially > uninstall if the package has that option - problems with this approach > are of course where you put the installer (and having the space etc), > being sure that the third party provided installer is idempotent, and > checking that the software is installed. Would this be useful, or is > it foolishness? It's probably less foolish than my other plan, which > was to add source to exec. :) > > FWIW the software I'm looking at here is Netbackup, EMC Symcli and the > HP Proliant support pack. And potentially others. :/
This is definitely a common problem, but AFAIK there's no real common solution. The only real thing I can recommend is either 1) package the software yourself (by far the best option) or 2) use a defined type to do a wget, install, and rm of the tarball. Really, if you look at the Blastwave pkg-get script, that's pretty much what it does, so you'd be walking in the footsteps of giants or whatever. -- The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else. -- John Blake --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
