Thank you, this is the information I was looking for. I was not aware that such was necessary but looks like i'll be adjusting my design accordingly.
Much appreciated. -Stopp On Sunday, December 25, 2016 at 11:38:53 AM UTC-6, bryan...@gmail.com wrote: > > Cross-posting from Puppet Developers to get a wider audience. > > Hello All, > > I'm updating a module that will require a ruby gem (e.g. xml-simple) for > one of the custom providers. How does Puppet make sure that the gem is > available and installed when the module is installed? Does a *puppet > module install* also install any dependent gems? How does it know which > gems are needed to install? To where does Puppet install gems? > > Or is there something else that consumers of my module will need to do to > ensure that the gems are available before they try to use the module's > resources? > > I tried searching both this group and Puppet Users but didn't find much. > May be the key-words aren't right. > > I saw/found this PR (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/4220) > which shows a module which requires a gem; but when i try this i still get > the error: > > Could not autoload puppet/provider/aem_crx_package/ruby: cannot load such > file -- xmlsmiple > > I've tried the following: > > 1) Installing the gem with puppetserver gem install and restarting the > master > 2) Installing it using the gem command in the puppserver bin directory > directly (which does not install it to the same place as #1) > 3) Specifying package (type gem) on the *master* like the example in the > PR link > 4) Specifying package (type gem) on the *agent* like the example in the > PR link > > I've also tried to add the confines logic as the PR says, however i still > get the missing load file. Here's the project i've been trying to update: > > https://github.com/bstopp/puppet-aem/tree/feature/package-support > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fbstopp%2Fpuppet-aem%2Ftree%2Ffeature%2Fpackage-support&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEVN2uqq6gNPAWSX4Q-nD-_vzKGjg> > > The provider is here: > > > https://github.com/bstopp/puppet-aem/blob/feature/package-support/lib/puppet/provider/aem_crx_package/ruby.rb > > Any help would be appreciated. > > -Stopp > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/f9fa6c6c-7bc7-419f-92fe-336bcff8fe03%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
