As I can see, the best bet (and perhaps it would be a need) is having a 
global respository accessible via netbios, NFS and HTTP for puppet, so 
software is not needed to be transferred each time.

Thank you, John.





El viernes, 25 de mayo de 2012 14:43:40 UTC+2, jcbollinger escribió:
>
>
> 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. 
>
>
> John 
>

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