Thanks John, that's exactly what I'm looking for, but am having trouble getting it to work. I read the Custom Facts<http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html>and Plugins in Modules <http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/plugins_in_modules.html> docs, and:
added pluginsync = true to puppet.conf on the puppetmaster and restarted the service: [root@puppet01 facter]# puppet config print all |grep pluginsync pluginsync = true added my custom fact to {module}/lib/facter/pgsql_pkg.rb: Facter.add("pgsql_pkg") do setcode do Facter::Util::Resolution.exec("echo itworks") end end but then after doing a puppet run on the client, it does not appear in the output of facter [-p]. I do see the script has synced to /var/lib/puppet/facts on the client. any ideas? thanks. On Monday, September 24, 2012 7:21:04 AM UTC-7, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > On Friday, September 21, 2012 7:40:52 PM UTC-5, Justin Ryan wrote: >> >> I would like to place a file with puppet only if a certain package is >> installed on the system -- but assuming this package is not puppet-managed. >> Checking for the presence of a non-puppet-managed file is also ok. Is this >> possible? using require => Package['mypkg'] doesn't work if it's not >> puppet-managed. thanks. > > > > For those details where you want Puppet to adapt to the client node > instead of managing it to a known state, your first recourse should be node > facts. Puppet and Facter don't provide built-in facts describing whether > particular packages are installed, but it's pretty easy to write custom > facts and distribute them via Puppet's 'pluginsync' mechanism. See, for > example, http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html. > > Supposing that you create a custom fact 'mypkg_installed', you could then > use something like this in your manifest: > > if $::mypkg_installed == 'yes' { > file { '/etc/mypkg/special-file': > # ... > } > } > > (Note that that does not force the file absent if the package is not > installed; that's certainly possible, but I leave it as an exercise.) > > > John > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/zqt-maq6PNIJ. 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.