Thanks! Very helpful. Though I don't follow your discussion of MSI's, since
Groovy/Gradle don't have MSI installers. My understanding is MSI
development is non-trivial.
On Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:19:31 PM UTC-5, Josh Cooper wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I've recently added support for MSI and executable packages on
> Windows[1], which will be out in Puppet 3. That way you can just
> download the java exe installer (step 1) and manage it via a `package`
> resource, thereby avoiding the zip issue. Obviously, it doesn't help
> you out now.
>
> In 2.7.x, I'd recommend using one of the later puppet versions as the
> MSI support is much better[2]
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Jeff Sussna
> <j...@ingineering.it<javascript:>>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for the pointer to nanliu/staging. Though from the forge page it
> > sounds like it requires a master and hiera. I'm running standalone.
>
> You can install and run modules locally, e.g.
>
> puppet apply <manifest> --modulepath <path>
>
> In 2.7.x, make sure to use forward slashes for the module path[3]
>
> >
> > Re env vars, I managed to figure that out. The following resource sets
> the
> > global system var FOO_BAR to the current value of PATH, with ";baz"
> appended
> > to the end of it:
> >
> > exec { "cmd.exe /c reg add
> \"HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
> > Manager\Environment\" /v FOO_BAR /t REG_SZ /d \"$::path;baz\" /f":
> > path => $::path
> > }
> >
>
> You'll need to add an `unless` otherwise puppet will append baz each
> time it runs.
>
> > Note the escaped quotes.
> >
> > On Windows 7 you could use the builtin 'setx' command instead, but I'm
> being
> > wacky and using Puppet on XP, which doesn't have setx.
>
> Didn't know about setx, cool!
>
> >
> > On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:20:11 PM UTC-5, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Jeff Sussna <j...@ingineering.it>
> wrote:
> >> > I want to use Puppet to manage Groovy and Gradle on Windows machines.
> >> > The
> >> > install process for each looks like:
> >> >
> >> > 1. Download zip file from a URL
>
> If you can host the package on a puppet fileserver, then you can just
> use a 'puppet' URI scheme.
>
> If not, then you'll have to use nan's module (which requires curl) to
> download.
>
> >> > 2. Unzip
> >>
> >> The nanliu/staging module on the Puppet Forge will at least get you
> >> the first two points. http://forge.puppetlabs.com/nanliu/staging
> >>
> >> With a couple of Puppet resources, it will retrieve the zip file from
> >> a url, store it somewhere and unzip it wherever you want. He lists
> >> some examples on the Forge page. They're for tar.gz files but the
> >> resources automatically handle zipped files should they have the
> >> proper .zip extension.
> >>
>
> Nan's module requires unzip, which isn't present by default. You'd
> probably want to install 7zip. They have an MSI installer, so you can
> manage as a package resource.
>
> >> > 3. Create a Windows environment variable to point to the location
> where
> >> > you
> >> > unzipped
>
> You can exec reg.exe or use the registry module[4][5]:
>
> So to create an environment variable JAVA_HOME=C:\java7, you'd do:
>
> registry_value { 'HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
> Manager\Environment\JAVA_HOME':
> ensure => present,
> type => string,
> value => 'C:\java7'
> }
>
> The `registry_value` type supports all common registry types, such as
> REG_EXPAND_SZ, so you can do `value => '%SYSTEMDRIVE%\java7'`
>
> >> > 4. Add that environment variable/bin to the global PATH environment
> >> > variable.
> >>
> >> I'm sorry I can't help you with these two. Hopefully someone else on
> >> the list can. :-)
> >
>
> This would best be handled by an environment type & provider (to
> account for the inclusive/exclusive behavior of the multi-valued PATH
> environment variable). In the meantime, probably best to use the exec
> resource.
>
> Josh
>
> [1] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11870
> [2] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11868
> [3] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13055
> [4] http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/registry
> [5]
> http://puppetlabs.com/blog/module-of-the-week-puppetlabs-registry-windows/
>
> --
> Josh Cooper
> Developer, Puppet Labs
>
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