On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:43 AM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org>wrote:
>
> On May 25, 3:58 am, tiochan <tioc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This stanza:
>
> > file { 'C:\\SOFTWARE\\7z920.msi':
> > source => 'puppet://puppet.upc.edu/modules/windows/7z920.msi',
> > }
>
> tells Puppet that there is supposed to be a file C:\\SOFTWARE\
> \7z920.msi on the system, and its content is supposed to exactly match
> that of puppet://puppet.upc.edu/modules/windows/7z920.msi. That's
> altogether independent of whatever use that file may have. If the
> file is missing when Puppet runs then it will download a fresh copy.
> If it is present then Puppet will check its content; it will download
> a fresh copy only if the content does not match.
>
> If you do not want the file downloaded every time then either
> 1) leave it in place where Puppet puts it (per your instructions), or
> 2) remove that stanza, because it is a lie if you don't actually want
> the file to be there.
>
>
> > A band of having a software repository mounted as a mapped drive... Is
> > possible to avoid that the msi file to being downloaded if it is not
> going
> > to be installed?
>
>
> If you make the MSI file accessible to the system via a mapped drive
> or network share then you can exercise option (2) above without losing
> the ability to run the installer.
>
You can also provide a plain HTTP(S) URI to the source parameter and it
will only be downloaded if it's not already installed.
-Jeff
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