OK, I got registry::value working by commenting out the calls to validate_re. I will file a ticket for that. Unfortunately, though, the Windows gotchas continue. If you manually edit PATH in the System control panel, the new value shows up the next time you open a new cmd window. If, however, you edit it in the registry, the change doesn't show up until you reboot the machine. I've verified this behavior in XP and Server 2003.
I also discovered an "inconvenience" with the puppet registry module. registry::value calls registry_value, which appends the value to the key to create a namevar. That means you can't edit PATH within a module that has a dependency on another module that edits path; if you do, you get a duplicate declaration error. On Friday, August 17, 2012 6:09:50 PM UTC-5, Josh Cooper wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Jeff Sussna > <j...@ingineering.it<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hmm..it appears that $::path is returning multiple copies of the Puppet > > paths, along with "/user/bin" (which as you can imagine causes problems > for > > Windows), in addition to the explicitly defined PATH string. Any idea > why? > > > > So I get: > > C:\work\puppet> envpuppet puppet apply -e "notice($::path)" > notice: Scope(Class[main]): > c:\work\puppet\ext\..\bin;c:\work\puppet\ext\..\..\facter\bin;c:\puppetwinbuilder\sys\ruby\bin;c:\ruby187\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;c:\bin;c:\puppetwinbuilder\sys\git\bin;c:\puppetwinbuilder\sys\git\bin;C:\Chocolatey\bin;c:\work\puppet\ext;/usr/sbin;/sbin > > > > The `:path` setting is populated from the environment, but we also add > in /usr/sbin and /sbin (in defaults.rb), obviously not helpful. Filed > as https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16019. With that said it > shouldn't prevent the exec from working. > > You can do something like the following to see how puppet resolves > which cmd.exe to run: > > C:\work\puppet>envpuppet irb > irb(main):001:0> require 'puppet' > => true > irb(main):002:0> Puppet::Util.which('cmd.exe') > => "C:/Windows/system32/cmd.exe" > > Or is it not finding reg.exe? > > Josh > > -- > Josh Cooper > Developer, Puppet Labs > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/GzJJIqrhPXgJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
