Sam Rowe wrote:
> Another quick point about this.. pkgadd isn't smart enough to handle a
> response file with packages installed this way.
It will however use an admin file.
Here's what I have for installing packages on Solaris systems:
define pkgadd {
$pkgrepo="http://pca.itgasiapac.com/pkgs";
package{"$name":
source => "$pkgrepo/$name.pkg.$hardwareisa",
ensure => installed,
adminfile => "puppet",
require => File["/var/sadm/install/admin/puppet"]
}
}
My "base" define which gets pulled in for everything ensures that the
admin file is in the right place. This is a full-auto admin file. Then
I define packages I want installed thus:
pkgadd{ITGlsof:}
The hitch is that I'm not sure that puppet is able to handle the Solaris
package version info -- pkgadd itself doesn't really either. So this
doesn't keep packages updated, merely installs them from the repository
if they're not there.
What you *can* do, though, is have a sort of "temporary" define that
gets pulled in for all Solaris hosts, and when you update a package you
can explicitly pkgrm it there. It should then get the updated version
installed.
A long way from perfect but if it's happening during a maintenance
window then it isn't *too* bad.
It ought to be possible to write a custom fact that enumerates all
package versions, though I think you'd want to be careful and either do
some caching or ignore anything starting with SUNW*. It would probably
then be possible to write an improved 'pkgadd' define that also takes a
version number and automatically updates if the installed version is
older than the declared one.
Still not perfect but probably a whole lot better.
Matt
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