Peter Berghold writes:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm a newbie to this wonderful tool called puppet and so far I'm loving it.
>
> One of the first set of recipes (classes?) I wrote for my environment was to
> build some packages from source and install them. Stuff like apache httpd,
> nagios and others I prefer to build from source because the distro i'm
> forced to use lags behind version wise (CloudLinux, a form of CentOS) and
> I'd like certain of my tools to be more recent vintages than the distro
> provides.
>
> Is there a way to wrap a set of exec { } statement in a conditional such as:
>
>
> if [ file_or_directory_does_not_exist ]
> then
> exec { thing1}
> exec {thing2}
>
> etc...
>
> or is there a better way that I'm not seeing?
You're probably going to be better off making custom RPM packages for
things that you want to have locally-built, place them in a local
repository that your systems are configured to access, and then using
the Puppet "package" resource type to install them.
In general, the "exec" resource type should be a last resort for things
that you can't use an existing Puppet resource type to manage.
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