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My suggestion, if possible, is to run a nightly cron job that updates
everything on the system.
This way, puppet only manages the things you actually want to manage.
Trevor
On 09/12/2009 04:56 PM, ELTigre wrote:
>
> On Sep 12, 10:10 am, Chris Blumentritt <cblum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chirs,
>
> I only use debian lenny on my servers. I just want to create a class
> with all package from APT to keep them up2date all the time with this
> configuration (ensure => latest) and whenever I create a new server it
> install all theses packages.
>
>> The spirit of puppet is to install via the package resource. You could
>> write a shell script to install using a text file as a data source then use
>> the exec resource using onlyif to check to see if you need to run it. What
> How does "onlyif" fits here if I use exec? What should I check to
> prevent exec running every time puppet client get the catalog?
>
>> I would do is create a separate class in its own manifest file and do some
>> fancy searching and replacing (matching beginnings and endings of lines)
>> with your list of packages. Since you have so many packages I doubt the
>> resource will be more than one line. End up with something like:
>> package { "package_name": ensure => installed }
> Coul you explain me this, please? :-)
>
>>
>
>
>> You might run into trouble here if you are using different distros of linux
>> or linux and freebsd as the package names may be different. You would get
>> the benefit of later being able to hit the file and change installed to
>> latest if you want update a specific package though.
>>
>> I have never heard of a file being used as a source for a resource but it is
>> an interesting thought. You might get away with an inline template to do
>> that but that would be dirty:
>>
>> package { inline_template("<%= filename.each_line.collect %>"):
>> require => File["filename"],
>> ensure => installed
> I'll test it and let you know.
>
> thanks a lot.
> regards,
> israel
>>
>> }
>>
>> I have no idea if the above will work and I doubt the erb is correct since
>> my ruby sucks.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:02 AM, ELTigre <igalva...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How can I install a lot (more than 800) of APT packages using an easy
>>> way in puppet? I mean, using some file.txt where I put there the
>>> packages I want to install and my package resource get the list . Is
>>> it possible? Or do I have to put all packages in the package resource?
>>
>>> regards,
>>> Israel.
> >
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