On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote:
> ----- Mike Reed <mjohn.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'd like to use puppet to install an Nvidia driver on a local workstation.
>> I've written the following manifest for this puprpose:
>>
>> class nvidia_driver {
>> # This will place the nvidia installer locally in /tmp. File is
>> pulled from puppet.
>> file { "/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.53.run" :
>> source =>
>> "puppet:///modules/nvidia_driver/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.53.run" ,
>> ensure => present ,
>> }
>>
>> # This will run the nvidia installer locally on the machine.
>> exec { "/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.53.run -s -X --opengl-headers
>> --no-distro-scripts --force-tls-compat32=new" : }
>>
>> }
>>
>> Upon the initial run of the manifest on the target machine, everything
>> works great (although I do believe there is some room for improvement of
>> the code above; particularly on the exec portion) and the driver then gets
>> installed. The issue occurs on subsequent puppet runs on the same machine
>> and I'm getting the following error during my second puppet run from the
>> client:
>>
>> err: /Stage[main]/Nvidia_driver/Exec[/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.53.run -s
>> -X --opengl-headers --no-distro-scripts --force-tls-compat32=new]/returns:
>> change from notrun to 0 failed: /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.53.run -s -X
>> --opengl-headers --no-distro-scripts --force-tls-compat32=new returned 1
>> instead of one of [0] at
>> /etc/puppet/modules/nvidia_driver/manifests/init.pp:12
>>
>> It appears to me that the above error is occurring because the
>> nvidia_driver class is running on each subsequent run and since the driver
>> is already installed, I'm getting an exit status of 1 instead of 0, which
>> to my knowledge would be expected.
>>
>> So, what I'd like to do is put some sort of condition that will look to see
>> if the driver is installed and if it is, the class "nvidia_driver" won't
>> run. I'm having a hard time figuring this one out and I was hoping to get
>> a few opinions on how this might be accomplished.
>>
>> Would this potentially be a job for a shell script that does the checking?
>> Maybe just adding the shell script into the "nvidia_driver" manifest?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for everybody's assistance and the help is very much
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mike
>
> I am working with the same kind of drivers and I have a suggestion:
>
> The driver only needs to be re-installed when the kernel changes version.
>
> I am not sure how to implement this idea, but it is something to check
> against.
> If I have any revelations, I will post here.
Seems like a custom fact to detect nvidia driver version is the most
sensible thing since it will also alleviate the need to download the
binary file in the first place.
Nan
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