On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM, engle <kurt.en...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nigel, thanks for the quick response.
>
> Avoiding the 'define':
> I am not seeing a marker file being installed in /var/db. I have tried
> to install the package with the standard package install using
> puppet... no go. I get errors regarding the package path: ...Execution
> of '/usr/sbin/installer -pkg http://server/packages/firefox.3.0.6-1.dmg
> -target /' returned 1: installer: Error the package path specified was
> invalid: <path>'.
>
> The file is there and the path is correct.
Something is wrong there. Installer is trying to install the dmg, not
the package inside it.
What if you manually specify the package provider to be "pkgdmg" ?
Does that change behavior?
>
> Using the 'define':
> I have actually made a little progress on this one. I am now getting
> an hdutil error about no mountable filesystems in /tmp or /tmp/
> Firefox3.0.6-1.dmg. I am seeing the puppet client doing a 'GET' from
> the the web server but I am not seeing the file anywhere on the client
> system. Could this be a permissions issue on the client?
>
> Also, in all my errors, I get: 'err: //Node[default]/mac-firefox/
> Pkg_deploy[Firefox3.0.6-1.dmg]/Package[Firefox3.0.6-1.dmg]/ensure:
> change from absent to present failed:
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> -kurt
>
>
> On Mar 3, 3:51 pm, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote:
>> engle, does it work when you avoid the define and just do a standard
>> package install?
>>
>> Note that the pkgdmg provider relies upon marker files for packages in
>> /var/db/.puppet_installed_* so if that marker already exists, it won't
>> reinstall it. (There's no necessary link between the dmg name and the
>> packages that are contained within it)
>>
>> That may be your problem.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:29 PM, engle <kurt.en...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I am trying to setup a simple puppet config to pull a .dmg file off an
>> > http server and install that package on to a mac laptop. I seem to
>> > have the configuration working somewhat, but the package does not get
>> > installed on the laptop.
>>
>> > I am trying to do a simple install of Firefox and have obtained the
>> > latest .dmg file from the Firefox website. I am then placing the file
>> > on a local web server.
>>
>> > Here is my init.pp file :
>>
>> > define pkg_deploy($sourcedir = false) {
>> > $sourcedir_real = $sourcedir ? {
>> > false => "http://webserver.foo/packages";,
>> > default => $sourcedir
>> > }
>> > package { $name:
>> > ensure => installed,
>> > provider => pkgdmg,
>> > source => "$sourcedir_real/$name"
>> > }
>> > }
>>
>> > class mac-firefox {
>> > pkg_deploy { "Firefox3.0.6.dmg": }
>> > }
>>
>> > I can see the laptop put out a "GET" for the file and it seems that
>> > the file is being transfered to the mac. However, that is as far as I
>> > can trace. I do not see the dmg get 'mounted' on the laptop nor does
>> > the package get installed.
>>
>> > Any help would be appreciated. More information gladly provided if
>> > needed.
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > -kurt
>>
>> --
>> Nigel Kersten
>> Systems Administrator
>> Tech Lead - MacOps
> >
>
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Nigel Kersten
Systems Administrator
Tech Lead - MacOps
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