Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2014-04-14 Thread Gabriel Schuyler
Actually, debian backports has a dmidecode. So facter will apt-get install if you add backports. echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list apt-get update apt-get install facter The amusing chicken-and-egg, of course, is that o

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2014-04-08 Thread JonY
Ah nice! I did the same on the dream plug. It's the same chip. On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 5:07:52 AM UTC-7, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am 08.04.2014 12:29, schrieb JonY: > > Not sure. The devices are fanless PCs called 'dream plugs'. How would I > determine the chip id? > > > I've got a Gurupl

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2014-04-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am 08.04.2014 12:29, schrieb JonY: > Not sure. The devices are fanless PCs called 'dream plugs'. How would > I determine the chip id? I've got a Guruplug, which is the predecessor. It's armv5tel, running on Marvel Feroceon CPU. % cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 model name : Feroceon 88

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2014-04-08 Thread JonY
Not sure. The devices are fanless PCs called 'dream plugs'. How would I determine the chip id? On Monday, April 7, 2014 10:40:11 PM UTC-7, Ashutosh Parida wrote: > > > Hey Jon, > > I am also planning to deploy puppet on ARM and am glad to see you tried > and may be you fixed issues with it. > I

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2014-04-08 Thread Ashutosh Parida
Hey Jon, I am also planning to deploy puppet on ARM and am glad to see you tried and may be you fixed issues with it. I dropped a mail to Puppetlabs, seeking information as to what is their roadmap for supporting puppet on ARMv7 and later releases and puppetlabs replied back saying currently t

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-13 Thread Jon Yeargers
Answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14607385/puppet-does-not-start-a-service-varnish-when-puppet-apply-is-run On Friday, December 13, 2013 11:07:01 AM UTC-8, Jon Yeargers wrote: > > Just out of curiosity I created my own 'dmidecode' package with a trivial > (does nothing) dmidecode

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-13 Thread Jon Yeargers
Just out of curiosity I created my own 'dmidecode' package with a trivial (does nothing) dmidecode executable. Once this was installed the rest of puppet v 3.3.2 installed fine. NOW: it's having trouble accepting that certain services are already running and it's trying to restart them every ti

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-13 Thread Felix Frank
Ideally, there will be a newly released facter package that replaces this dependency by a suggestion or recommendation. It will Just Work for you then. In the meantime, these are your options: a) fetch the facter source package and build a forked package without this dependency b) fetch all deb pa

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-13 Thread Jon Yeargers
So am I SOL on this? Is ARM considered an 'unsupported architecture' until I can create a 'dmidecode' for this platform? On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:55:11 AM UTC-8, Jon Yeargers wrote: > > I can wget and install facter but the issues continue: > > root@plugpc-005:/tmp# apt-get install pupp

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-11 Thread Jon Yeargers
I can wget and install facter but the issues continue: root@plugpc-005:/tmp# apt-get install puppet Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies:

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-11 Thread Jeff Bachtel
You can fetch it directly (wget, curl, whatever) from http://apt.puppetlabs.com/pool/squeeze/main/f/facter/facter_1.6.18-1puppetlabs1_all.deb Jeff On 12/11/2013 12:39 PM, Jon Yeargers wrote: root@plugpc-005:~# apt-get install ruby libopenssl-ruby pciutils Reading package lists... Done Building

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-11 Thread Jon Yeargers
root@plugpc-005:~# apt-get install ruby libopenssl-ruby pciutils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'libruby' instead of 'libopenssl-ruby' pciutils is already the newest version. libruby is already the newest version. ruby is alr

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-11 Thread Felix Frank
I was thinking along the same lines. A "recommends" may be better suited, because on some (many?) systems, those will be installed automatically just like hard dependencies. Cheers, Felix On 12/11/2013 04:47 PM, Jeff Bachtel wrote: > > I think facter's dmidecode dependency should be a Suggests v

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-11 Thread Jeff Bachtel
demidecode (which is a hard dependency for facter) is not available for armel in Debian's repository. I have confirmed that facter will not fail outright when dmidecode is missing. The following facter variables will not be created, however: bios_release_date bios_vendor bios_version boardmanuf

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-11 Thread Jon Yeargers
I also tried 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. This brought down 'hiera' (along with a few other things). Then tried 'apt-get install puppet-common' - this failed as 'facter' needed a higher version. .. so tried 'facter' but this failed with: facter : Depends : dmidecode but it is not installable If

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-11 Thread Jon Yeargers
'apt-get update' ran fine this time. 'apt-get install puppet': Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-10 Thread Moses Mendoza
Hi all, apt.puppetlabs.com has been updated with additional architectures so the 'all' packages should install. Can you check if you still have the same issues? On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Moses Mendoza wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Jon Yeargers wrote: >> I updated the reposit

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-10 Thread Moses Mendoza
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Jon Yeargers wrote: > I updated the repository file using the official puppet-recommended version. > The corrected line is: > > deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com squeeze main (i mistakenly entered 'wheezy' > above). > > When I do 'apt-get update' I'm told: > > W: Fi

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-10 Thread Jon Yeargers
I updated the repository file using the official puppet-recommended version. The corrected line is: deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com squeeze main (i mistakenly entered 'wheezy' above). When I do 'apt-get update' I'm told: W: Filed to fetch http://apt.puppetlabs.com/dists/squeeze/Release Unable

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-10 Thread Felix Frank
That's not the issue at all I think. Is that source.list entry from a howto? Have you tried the instructions here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#for-debian-and-ubuntu Because what apt is making of your configuration is plain wrong. On 12/10/2013 05:50 PM

[Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-10 Thread Jon Yeargers
If I create a '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet.list' with: deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com/pool wheezy stable I get: Failed to fetch http://apt.puppetlabs.com/pool/dists/wheezy/stable/binary-armel/Packages.gz 404 Not Found I'm thinking that I might need to set this up on an x86 machine and then

[Puppet Users] Re: Getting latest agent on debian for ARM?

2013-12-10 Thread Jon Yeargers
I've tried using 'gem' to install the latest build but it brings down lots of (seemingly) unnecessary bits with it. (examples, docs, etc) On Thursday, December 5, 2013 9:16:15 AM UTC-8, Jon Yeargers wrote: > > I'm looking to deploy several hundred ARM based machines in the near > future. At this