I add my 2 cents.
The alternatives proposed in the replies are ok for me, just would like to
express an alternative approach that I''ve used in some situations.
It's due to different factors:
- Many packages to manage (but not necessarily)
- Option to include a module in an existing module set, where you don't
know if and how the packages you want to use are already defined as
resources.
- The fact that these packages generally don't need extra management
(service or configuration files) and they do not harm if they are just
installed and "forgotten"
So the approach is to install them not as Puppet resources but via an exec:
class oracle::packages {
require oracle::params
file { "install_oracle_dependency.sh":
mode => 750, owner => root, group => root,
content => $operatingsystem ? {
centos => template("oracle/install_oracle_dependency.sh-redhat"),
redhat => template("oracle/install_oracle_dependency.sh-redhat"),
debian => template("oracle/install_oracle_dependency.sh-debian"),
ubuntu => template("oracle/install_oracle_dependency.sh-debian"),
suse => template("oracle/install_oracle_dependency.sh-suse"),
},
path => "${oracle::params::workdir}/install_oracle_dependency.sh",
}
exec { "install_oracle_dependency.sh":
subscribe => File["install_oracle_dependency.sh"],
refreshonly => true,
timeout => 3600,
command =>
"${oracle::params::workdir}/install_oracle_dependency.sh",
}
}
where the template install_oracle_dependency.sh-redhat is something like
#!/bin/sh
# File Managed by Puppet
# Installs the packages required for installing Oracle applications
<% if $architecture=="i386" %>
yum install -y binutils compat-db compat-libstdc++ compat-libstdc++-33
elfutils-libelf elfutils-libelf-devel elfutils-libelf-devel-static gcc gcc-c++
glibc glibc-common glibc-devel glibc-headers kernel-headers ksh libaio
libaio-devel libgcc libgomp libstdc++ libstdc++-devel make numactl-devel pdksh
sysstat unixODBC unixODBC-devel
yum groupinstall -y "X Window System"
<% else %>
yum install -y binutils compat-db compat-libstdc++ compat-libstdc++.i386
compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-33.i386 elfutils-libelf
elfutils-libelf-devel elfutils-libelf-devel-static gcc gcc-c++ glibc glibc.i386
glibc-common glibc-devel glibc-devel.i386 glibc-headers kernel-headers ksh
libaio libaio.i386 libaio-devel libaio-devel.i386 libgcc libgcc.i386 libgomp
libstdc++ libstdc++.i386 libstdc++-devel make numactl-devel pdksh sysstat
unixODBC unixODBC.i386 unixODBC-devel.i386
yum groupinstall -y "X Window System"
<% end %>
Opinions on this approach?
al
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