> i'd like to manage my opensuse 11.1 systems with puppet and zypper. > the requirements are the manage the repos and install packages.
I've just begun work on a new custom type that is aimed at managing zypper repos. Unfortunately I'm not very far along, but I'll certainly let you know when I have something usable. > the only thing i found is the zypper.rb on > http://projects.reductivelabs.com/attachments/393 > which i copied to /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/package The zypper.rb that you are referring to is a package provider only, and doesn't allow the management of repositories. I'm using the perl script here: http://pastie.org/pastes/613000 to manage zypper repos until my custom type is working. > but i don't understand how to use this zypper provider. what are the > names of the valid names of resource type and the valid parameters > with there values! It's just a package provider, so you can copy zypper.rb to any module directory and have puppet's pluginsync get it out to your clients. For instance, if you have a module called "zypper" located in /etc/puppet/modules/zypper, you would create the directories necessary and copy zypper.rb to /etc/puppet/modules/zypper/plugins/puppet/provider/package/zypper.rb. Now, just make sure pluginsync = true is set in your client's puppet.conf, and puppet should be able to install packages using zypper. Note: I did the following in my site.pp to make sure zypper is used (and not rug) on sles boxes: Package { provider => $suse_version ? { 'sles9' => rug, 'sles10' => zypper, '' => rug } } Note also that this required the suse.rb facter plugin from here: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/Recipes/SuSE_Version. To get the custom facter plugins out to clients, make sure that in addition to the steps above you copy suse.rb to plugins/facter/ in your module path. Using the previous example, that would be /etc/puppet/modules/zypper/plugins/facter/. Also, be sure that factpath is set to $vardir/lib/facter on your clients. Hope this helps, Justin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
