I think the documentation about package providers should include something about this... Right now a provider has these features:
holdable install_options installable purgeable uninstallable upgradeable versionable Maybe something like: detectable Meaning the provider can effectively detect whether the package is installed or not, as opposed to "can remember if it did install it or not". Thanks a lot, Mohamed. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Jacob Helwig <ja...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On 2011-11-22 07:10 , Mohamed Lrhazi wrote: >> I noticed that is if I uninstall an MSI that was installed by Puppet, >> Puppet does not notice. >> >> Looking at the source I see it might be checking for a state file to >> know whether a package is installed or not: >> C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\puppet\var\db\package\msi\SplunkForwarder.yml >> >> So one has to rememebr to delete that too.... Is this design not a problem? >> >> Thanks, >> Mohamed. >> > > It's certainly a limitation, and not ideal. This is currently how the > appdmg provider behaves on OS X, so it's not entirely unexpected > behavior (for people that are used to how Puppet works on systems > without centralized package management systems). > > An alternative would be to create a parameter along the lines of exec's > 'creates' where you would need to specify a file that would only exist > iff the 'package' had been successfully installed. > > When we were investigating things initially I believe that the reason we > had to rule out things like checking the registry was that there were > too many ways for an installer to misbehave that would break any of the > detection that we would need to do. > > I don't know whether or not a 'creates' parameter would end up being > more problematic or not, but I certainly welcome discussion from people > who are actually doing real systems management using Puppet on Windows. > > -- > Jacob Helwig > http://about.me/jhelwig > > -- 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.
