Why not to create your own blastwave repo to use pkg-get with, or am I
missing anything here?
Thanks,
Ohad
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:41 AM, McLeod, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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