On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Sean Lazar <kn...@toaster.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I've got puppet installed and working. I'm looking for a way to update > software on OS X desktops. I have successfully set up the appdmg package > provider, and I can update an application. How do you manage installs? I > want to update an application but not when the user is using the > application. Is there a way to check if an application is running and do the > package install later? How do people manage this? Or are more people leaning > toward Munki and letting Munki's dialog box interact with the user?
This is difficult, and I believe that we shouldn't replicate the great work Munki is doing in this area, but should instead work on Munki/Puppet integration. We have some community members who have been looking into this recently who I'm sure will chime in here. I'm going to talk about the pkgdmg provider more here, as it offers more control than appdmg. I know you're using the latter, but you really have very little control there. If these are custom packages, you can do the work in the installation scripts, but that gets really old really quickly, and doesn't translate well to signed flat packages in any case. If I was spending time working on this problem right now, I'd be making a munki type/provider that uses Munki to do all this work as Greg has done a great job dealing with the user interaction process. There are other hacky solutions like setting up launchd to register for NSWorkspace notifications and watch for application quits if in use, then copying the files in, but they're not trivial to implement. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
