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
>
>
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