This answer works. A move complicated answer for why is that an exec is
basically just a command that's run. If tar doesn't know how to use puppet
URIs, (which is doesn't) that syntax won't work. You can put the file on the
machine using a file resource. Using wget to get the file works too.
On May 2, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Nan Liu wrote:
> Use a file resource to deploy it to the agent and make the exec depend
> on the file resource.
>
> On May 2, 2011, at 7:58, Edd Grant <e...@eddgrant.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have defined the following module to untar/unzip and copy the Maven
>> distributable to a convenient location:
>>
>> class apache-maven-v3 {
>> exec { "/bin/tar xzf /etc/puppet/modules/apache-maven-v3/files/
>> apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz":
>> cwd => "/usr/local/java",
>> creates => "/usr/local/java/apache-maven-3.0.3",
>> }
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> The above definition executes perfectly however in order to keep the
>> module portable I want to replace the absolute path to the .gz file
>> with a puppet:/// URI e.g.
>>
>> exec { "/bin/tar xzf
>> puppet:///modules/apache-maven-v3/apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz":
>>
>> When I change the class to use the puppet:/// URI I get the following
>> error:
>>
>> (/Stage[main]/Apache-maven-v3/Exec[/bin
>> /tar xzf
>> puppet:///modules/apache-maven-v3/apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz]/return
>> s) change from notrun to 0 failed: /bin/tar xzf
>> puppet:///modules/apache-maven-v
>> 3/apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz returned 2 instead of one of [0] at /
>> etc/puppet/
>> modules/apache-maven-v3/manifests/init.pp:11
>>
>> It appears to me that the puppet:/// URI is not being resolved in the
>> exec and this is causing the tar command to operate on the literal
>> path puppet:///modules/apache-maven-v3/apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz
>> which of course doesn't exist.
>>
>> Looking at the docs I can't see any examples of puppet:/// being used
>> in this way, is there anyway I can obtain the resolved absolute path
>> to pass this in to my exec? Failing that it there a standard approach
>> for combining a puppet:/// URI with an exec?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Edd
>>
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