[Puppet Users] Ability to wait for dotnet to complete installation

2014-06-04 Thread Stephen Wallace
Hi all, Interesting timing challenge around installing dotnet on Windows 2008 R2 Data Cente. In essence, when we run the following command, it appears to complete in a few seconds. The reality is that it spawns multiple new msiexecs to install and configure itself over the next 5 mins or so.

Re: [Puppet Users] Ability to wait for dotnet to complete installation

2014-06-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am 04.06.2014 08:15, schrieb Stephen Wallace: Short of writing a new function called go for a cup of tea feeding it the required number of sleep seconds(!), does anybody have any experiences or ideas around this one?? There's a nice little wait_for resource available on Github

Re: [Puppet Users] Ability to wait for dotnet to complete installation

2014-06-04 Thread Felix Frank
Oooh, shiny. Hadn't seen that one before. Thanks Dirk. Of course, it's also available from the more canonical https://forge.puppetlabs.com/basti1302/wait_for Cheers On 06/04/2014 08:19 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Short of writing a new function called go for a cup of tea feeding it the required

Re: [Puppet Users] Ability to wait for dotnet to complete installation

2014-06-04 Thread Jim Ficarra
Did you try using the package resource over the exec resource? I install .NET 4.0 using the package resource and it works just fine on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Standard, though I haven’t tried on Data Center but I’m not sure how different it would be. I’ve done something similar with .net

Re: [Puppet Users] Ability to wait for dotnet to complete installation

2014-06-04 Thread Josh Cooper
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Jim Ficarra jimfica...@gmail.com wrote: Did you try using the package resource over the exec resource? I install .NET 4.0 using the package resource and it works just fine on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Standard, though I haven’t tried on Data Center but I’m