On 22.6.2012 18:23, Christopher Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 08:50:59AM -0700, Christian DeKonink wrote:
>> foo_bar_1.0.rpm
>
>
> If this is something that you absolutely must do by the end of the day on a
> Friday because some manager is a maniac, you can deploy the rpm via a file
> resource and then install it by specifying alternate package type parameters:
>
> class myrpm {
> $myrpm = '/tmp/foo_bar_1.0.rpm'
> $myrpmsource = "puppet:///modules/myrpm/foo_bar_1.0.rpm"
> $mypkg = "foo_bar"
> file { $myrpm:
> source => $myrpmsource,
> }
> package { $mypkg:
> provider => 'rpm',
> source => $myrpm,
> require => File[$myrpm],
> }
> }The problem with this is that the file has to be downloaded even if the package is already installed. Even if it is already downloaded, it has to present. If you absolutely must do this, /tmp is a poor location because it is not guaranteed that it survives a reboot. Many tmp's are on tmpfs or similar things and even if it's on a regular filesystem there could be regular cronjobs removing old files. Maybe a better place would be /var/tmp or puppets $vardir/whatever Something like refreshonly would be handy in this case, but this exec only, I believe. -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb
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