Hey guys, puppet n00b here. I think I already found an answer for my
question here, but the topic was dated back in november of 2011, so I'm
hoping things have changed since then! Here's the topic I'm referring to.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/puppet-users/oSHWWjMX-sE
I'm running:
CentOS 6.3
yum 3.2.29
puppet 3.2.1
To sum it up, I would like to* install an RPM which I have saved locally on
the target machine using puppet and yum*. Couple reasons:
- I want yum to resolve dependencies for me.
- I need to install a custom-packaged version of collectd (v5, since
EPEL only has v4, and we've made some customizations).
Here's a code snippet:
> package { 'collectd':
> ensure => $ensure_pkg,
> source => $localInstallPath,
> #provider => rpm,
> }
If I use provider == rpm, it works fine assuming I already have the
dependencies installed. But I won't, on new machines. Of course I could
install those using other puppet modules, but I find it kind of annoying
that I need to build yet more puppet modules just to install dependencies,
especially since that's what yum is there for.
When I leave provider commented out, puppet defaults to yum. Problem is, it
doesn't use my source param, $localInstallPath. I've seen other folks point
to sources over http, which apparently works fine (meaning, source =>
"http://someserver.com/mycustom.rpm";). But when I specify a local path in
my variable (like "/home/test/rpms/mycustom.rpm") it doesn't get used:
..snip..
Debug: Prefetching yum resources for package
> Debug: Executing '/bin/rpm --version'
> Debug: Executing '/bin/rpm -qa --nosignature --nodigest --qf '%{NAME}
> %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}
> ''
> Debug: Executing '/bin/rpm -q collectd --nosignature --nodigest --qf
> %{NAME} %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}
> '
> Debug: Package[collectd](provider=yum): Ensuring => present
> *Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install collectd'*
> Debug: Executing '/bin/rpm -q collectd --nosignature --nodigest --qf
> %{NAME} %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}
> '
Ideally, all I want to change is:
> /usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install collectd
to
> /usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install /home/test/rpms/collectd.blah.rpm
So, any hints? Is there some parameter other than source that I can pass
into my package def that will force it to do this install from a local RPM?
Thanks!
P
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