Hi Nan,
Thanks for the answer - I'm not 100% clear how I could acheive this,
could you expand on your suggestion a little, perhaps with an example?
Would the file resource point at the .gz file in the module? If so how
would I then reference the file resource in the tar command?
Many thanks,
Edd
On May 2, 4:15 pm, Nan Liu <n...@puppetlabs.com> 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:
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> > 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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