Yes, I was able to solve it by adding a custom fact.
Thanks for the tip!
Michal
On Dec 20, 9:28 pm, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> add a fact which checks if java is installed?
>
> Ohad
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:00 PM, michal ruzicka <michal.r...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > I would like to use puppet to install a tool which requires java on a
> > linux machine. I could do that quite easily by depending on a specific
> > java package (say OpenJDK), then I would simply do:
>
> > package { "java-1.6.0-openjdk":
> > ensure => installed
> > }
>
> > ... {
> > require => Package["java-1.6.0-openjdk"]
> > }
>
> > But as the tool is pretty basic and can be run with just about any
> > java 1.5 implementation around, I would prefer not to install the
> > OpenJDK if there is already any other java 1.5 (even gcj) installed on
> > the target machine.
>
> > What would be the best approach to achieve that with puppet?
>
> > I should add that I'm quite new to puppet, so please bear with me if
> > the solution is obvious ...
>
> > Thanks,
> > Michal
>
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