On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Craig White <craig.wh...@ttiltd.com> wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Matthias Pigulla wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have repeatedly encountered the problem that I would like Puppet to >> install a particular piece of software, for example git, and then use a >> provider like https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-vcsrepo to check out a >> repository. >> >> This fails with a message like "Could not run Puppet configuration client: >> Could not find a default provider for ..." unless the tool (git, to stick >> with my example) is already installed. This chicken and egg problem applies >> to some other install-stuff-and-do-more-stuff-with-it situations as well. >> >> I understand that it would be way too complicated for puppet to be able to >> handle all this in a single run. But isn't failing due to the lack of a >> particular (default) provider too hard? >> >> If Puppet would carry on and just fail on the vcsrepo {} (or whatever type >> of resource), things would probably sort out after two or three agent runs. >> >> In IRC they pointed me to either using environments, which I think is too >> complicated (having to maintain "bootstrap" and "production" manifests). >> >> Another tip was to have a look at the way the pip package provider >> (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/package/pip.rb) >> works, see lazy_pip at the end. But to me it seems as if that would be out >> of line with the rest of providers and working against the API provided by >> Puppet. >> >> Suggestions? > ---- > I suspect that I must be missing something here but it seems rather obvious > to me that in this specific example... > > require => Package["git"] > > would mean that git is installed first and then it should just work.
You can't use a provider if it depends on a package that has yet to be installed. At least not in a single puppet run. Here's the issue: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6907 Thanks, Nan -- 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.
