A path type/provider would be great, since the need is so common. For example, 7Zip has an MSI, but to use the command line tools you have to edit PATH.
Also, since facter prepends the Puppet dirs to PATH, every time I update PATH from $::path it adds another copy of the Puppet dirs, and quickly fills up the entire variable with Puppet stuff. I don't actually understand why you do that anyway. If you can point me to the source where it happens I can hack it out myself for now. On Monday, August 20, 2012 5:01:50 PM UTC-5, Josh Cooper wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Jeff Sussna > <j...@ingineering.it<javascript:>> > wrote: > > OK, I got registry::value working by commenting out the calls to > > validate_re. I will file a ticket for that. > > The registry module has a dependency on the stdlib module. When > installing the module on a unix puppet master, the dependency will be > resolved automatically (stdlib module will be downloaded if > necessary). And since the running the module tool on Windows is not > currently supported (in large part because of the tar.gz format, see > [1]), you'll have to manually download the stdlib module to your > Windows box. > > > 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 found this post: > > http://mnaoumov.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/powershell-add-directory-to-environment-path-variable/ > > > Broadcast to all windows that the environment has changed. > > > 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. > > Really we should have a type & provider for managing the system path. > I've filed this as https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16048 > > Josh > > [1] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11276 > > -- > 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/-/WEbLZfE_r30J. 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.
