[Puppet Users] Announce: Puppet Agent 1.5.3 Available

Puppet Agent 1.5.3 is now available. This release adds support for Fedora 24 and also includes some bugfixes for Puppet, Facter, and PXP Agent. Check out the full release notes here: https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/release_notes_agent.html To install or upgrade puppet-agent,

Re: [Puppet Users] Basic question

"warron.french" writes: > Is it possible to extract a tarball using the puppet module, and then > set the permission of all the directory after that? > > Would one select a provider and then provide the tarball filename as the > argument somehow? The puppet/archive

[Puppet Users] Re: Basic question

You could probably use a combination of "file {}" to place the tarball on the target node, and "exec {}" to unpack it and set permissions, using the "creates" parameter. https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/type.html#exec-attribute-creates On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 8:11:22 PM

Re: [Puppet Users] Basic question

I am not intimately familiar with them, but I think the modules puppet/archive or puppet/staging will do what you want. On Wednesday, July 20, 2016, warron.french wrote: > Is it possible to extract a tarball using the puppet module, and then set > the permission of all