On 04/21/2011 11:05 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Russell Jackson <r...@csub.edu> wrote: > >> The ports provider doesn't work due to bugs in portupgrade when run >> without a controlling tty. I opened a problem report about this sometime >> ago and recommended removing the provider entirely. > > I'll chase this up now Russell. > >> The port (sysutils/puppet) already patches the providers to demote the >> ports provider in favor of the package provider. There's also an >> optional (but enabled by default) patch to use an alternate package >> provider that uses the port origin as the package name as well as >> utilizing the INDEX for name resolution. >> >> http://github.com/xraj/puppet/commits/freebsd%2Fpackage > > Which package provider is preferred over the ports provider Russell?
package/freebsd.rb > > Have those patches been sent to the dev-list for merging into upstream ? An older incarnation was, but died and never went anywhere. On the other hand, I haven't been very good about pushing for it either. There are also a few competing provider rewrites. I thought I'd let the community decide which one was best, but that doesn't appear to be happening either. -- Russell A Jackson <r...@csub.edu> Network Analyst California State University, Bakersfield -- 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.
