I don't foresee any bad side-effects.
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Josh Cooper <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday, June 13, 2013, Reginald Choudari wrote: > >> >> >> On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 5:23:50 PM UTC-4, Josh Cooper wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Reginald Choudari < >>> adnancho...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Tried renaming the title of the resource to what the name attribute was >>>> set to; no go. >>>> >>>> After doing a 'puppet resource package' on the agent, I see a list of >>>> packages but the package listed here is not shown ... I confirmed that it >>>> is still showing 'ensure: created' in the event logs every puppet run. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> Can you export the Uninstall registry key for that package? I want to >>> see what the SystemComponent, etc values are. >>> >>> >>>> On Friday, June 7, 2013 10:54:36 AM UTC-4, Reginald Choudari wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> I've got Package resource on my Windows machine that keeps creating >>>>> itself even though the package has been properly installed. >>>>> >>>>> I've got the name attribute set to the DisplayName found in the >>>>> Registry for the package. >>>>> >>>>> Every time the agent polls, I see in the Event Logs: >>>>> >>>>> /Stage[main]/Mssql_rtwo_sptwo/****Package[mssql2008r2sp2_exec]/**e**nsure: >>>>> created >>>>> >>>>> This is what's in my manifest: >>>>> >>>>> package { 'mssql2008r2sp2_exec': >>>>> ensure => installed, >>>>> name => 'SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Common Files', >>>>> provider => windows, >>>>> source => "C:\\puppet_temp\\${mssql_**file**name}", >>>>> install_options => ['/quiet', '/**IAcceptSQLServerLicenseTerms**', >>>>> '/allinstances'], >>>>> require => Exec['run_mssql2008r2sp2_**artif** >>>>> act_extract_ps1'], >>>>> } >>>>> >>>>> I'm thinking there has got to be some weird bug/error with this ... >>>>> Can anyone help? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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...@**googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to puppet...@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/**group/puppet-users?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >>>> . >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Josh >>> >>> -- >>> Josh Cooper >>> Developer, Puppet Labs >>> >>> *Join us at PuppetConf 2013, August 22-23 in San Francisco - * >>> http://bit.ly/pupconf13* >>> **Register now and take advantage of the Early Bird discount - save 25%! >>> * >>> >> -- >> 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 post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > Unfortunately, Windows does not have an API for retrieving installed > packages. So we scan the registry and apply heuristics to determine which > packages to report on. > > The overall goal has been for Puppet to report on the same set of packages > that you see in Add/Remove Programs. Packages whose registry > value SystemComponent=1 are hidden from ARP, so Puppet does the same, see > https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/package/windows/exe_package.rb#L34 > > Since Puppet never reports on SystemComponents, it will always think they > are absent, and need to be installed each time it runs. > > I'm thinking Puppet should not exclude SystemComponents? Are there any bad > side effects if we included them? > > Josh > > > -- > Josh Cooper > Developer, Puppet Labs > > *Join us at PuppetConf 2013, August 22-23 in San Francisco - * > http://bit.ly/pupconf13* > **Register now and take advantage of the Early Bird discount - save 25%!* > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-users/ftvvO51bX1U/unsubscribe. > > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. 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