[Puppet Users] Re: Modules for Solaris

2011-07-21 Thread John Lyman
I would be especially interested if anyone has a good way to manage / etc/system. I am currently using the concat module, but it's not the best method. I know the puppet way would be to use augeas, but I haven't had any luck compiling it with sun studio and don't want to go the gcc route for

[Puppet Users] Re: Modules for Solaris

2011-07-21 Thread windowsrefund
- What packages? This might become a nightmare... there are different packages repositories, blastwave, openCSW, Sunfreeware... , to make modules that manage the same software from different sources might be a troublesome and I would like to stick to one. Does this makes sense? What's the

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Modules for Solaris

2011-07-21 Thread Aaron Grewell
The pkgutil provider comes with the OpenCSW Puppet package on Solaris in Puppet 2.6, and is in 2.7 by default. It works quite well. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:14 AM, windowsrefund windowsref...@gmail.comwrote: - What packages? This might become a nightmare... there are different packages

[Puppet Users] Re: Modules for Solaris

2011-07-21 Thread windowsrefund
On Jul 21, 2:19 pm, Aaron Grewell aaron.grew...@gmail.com wrote: The pkgutil provider comes with the OpenCSW Puppet package on Solaris in Puppet 2.6, and is in 2.7 by default.  It works quite well. Even better. I'm not up on things because I'm fortunate enough to be migrating my entire

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Modules for Solaris

2011-07-21 Thread Aaron Grewell
One thing to note: if you're using pkgutil with Puppet make sure you set 'wgetopts=-nv' in pkgutil.conf or you'll get loads of inexplicable warnings. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Al @ Lab42 lab42...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 5:24:05 PM UTC+2, deet wrote: On Jul 20,

[Puppet Users] Re: Modules for Solaris

2011-07-20 Thread deet
On Jul 20, 12:06 am, Al @ Lab42 lab42...@gmail.com wrote: I'm considering the opportunity of adding (basic) Solaris support to my Cool. Certainly that will make it easier on Solaris admins new to puppet. So let's begin with few points: - What version? I'm tempted to begin only with

[Puppet Users] Re: Modules for Solaris

2011-07-20 Thread deet
so as far as I'm concerned Solaris 11 and IPS can't happen soon enough. Keep in mind you can do IPS in Solaris 10 now if you want. You'll need to install the software and migrate your packages from SYS V format to IPS which I believe the toolkit provides a script for.

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Modules for Solaris

2011-07-20 Thread Aaron Grewell
Interesting. I will definitely take a look at that IPS link, that could make life a lot easier. I'd love to see what you've done, I'm sure it would help me along as I work to smooth out our Solaris processes. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:47 AM, deet somew...@gmail.com wrote: so as far as I'm

[Puppet Users] Re: Modules for Solaris

2011-07-20 Thread Al @ Lab42
Thank you for the valuable infos, I agree that differences are enough to require a dedicated solaris subclass, to keep changes isolated and don't fiddle with existing classes linux oriented. The approach: Custom packages using pkgadd, Solaris OS packages using pkgutil, OpenCSW using pkgutil.

[Puppet Users] Re: Modules for Solaris

2011-07-20 Thread Al @ Lab42
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 5:24:05 PM UTC+2, deet wrote: On Jul 20, 12:06 am, Al @ Lab42 lab4...@gmail.com wrote: I'm considering the opportunity of adding (basic) Solaris support to my Cool. Certainly that will make it easier on Solaris admins new to puppet. Hope so. My