On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:21 -0700, "Sans" <r.santanu....@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 1, 4:59 am, Matthew Black <mjbl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You can put a requires in the file resource > > > > require => Package["packagename"] > > > > then it will install the package first then put in the symlink. > > > That not what I actually want. I just simply want: if the package > already installed, create the sym-link otherwise, do nothing. Cheers!!
In that case my suggestion of yesterday should do the trick - Have a Exec resource with a command to link the files above, but which runs only if the file does not already exist. Something along the lines of the example mentioned here - http://www.puppetcookbook.com/posts/exec-onlyif.html Regards. -- 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.