I'm just starting out with Puppet (version 2.6.4 installed), trying to figure out how to migrate an old Cfengine 2 implementation. The packages we build and install internally are made using pkgsrc, for which we have no repository. The way we presently install packages in cfengine 2 is as follows:
1) Define a target called "has_packagename" if the package is installed (found by returncode of "pkg_info packagename"). 2) In shellcommands section, include a literal shell command "pkg_add ftp://internal-file-server/path/to/package";, which will be executed if has_packagename is not defined. This is obviously quite ugly, and I would like to find a better way of doing it with Puppet. I'd also like to move the packages out of the anonymous internal FTP server and use Puppet's fileserver to serve the files instead (though this is not 100% necessary). I have spent several hours looking for a way to install these packages using Puppet, and it seems like I will need to write my own provider to accomplish this, but I don't even know where to begin. I'm not familiar with Ruby, and that seems to be the language that would be used to create a provider. Can anyone help point me in the right direction? -- 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.
