I want to use Puppet to manage Groovy and Gradle on Windows machines. The
install process for each looks like:
1. Download zip file from a URL
2. Unzip
3. Create a Windows environment variable to point to the location where you
unzipped
4. Add that environment variable/bin to the global PATH
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Jeff Sussna j...@ingineering.it wrote:
I want to use Puppet to manage Groovy and Gradle on Windows machines. The
install process for each looks like:
1. Download zip file from a URL
2. Unzip
The nanliu/staging module on the Puppet Forge will at least get you
Thanks for the pointer to nanliu/staging. Though from the forge page it
sounds like it requires a master and hiera. I'm running standalone.
Re env vars, I managed to figure that out. The following resource sets the
global system var FOO_BAR to the current value of PATH, with ;baz
appended to
Hi Jeff,
I've recently added support for MSI and executable packages on
Windows[1], which will be out in Puppet 3. That way you can just
download the java exe installer (step 1) and manage it via a `package`
resource, thereby avoiding the zip issue. Obviously, it doesn't help
you out now.
In
Thanks! Very helpful. Though I don't follow your discussion of MSI's, since
Groovy/Gradle don't have MSI installers. My understanding is MSI
development is non-trivial.
On Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:19:31 PM UTC-5, Josh Cooper wrote:
Hi Jeff,
I've recently added support for MSI and
