If you're using this wget module
https://github.com/liquidstate/puppet-wget/blob/master/manifests/init.pp
It's set to not run so long as the destination is still there, so
/tmp/Python-${version}.tgz needs to stick around. I'm not sure which
archive module you're using, but as long as you have that require there, it
should follow.
On Friday, October 26, 2012 6:55:32 AM UTC-7, Dave Mankoff wrote:
>
> Howdy. I feel like I am missing something really simply with regards to
> the way that Puppet works and I am wondering if someone can point me in the
> write direction.
>
> I have written a class that downloads, uncompresses, compiles, and
> installs Python from source. So far so good. The problem is that it only
> needs to do this once, when Python is not already in place (or some other
> custom indicator of the Python version). I have my 3 calls to exec doing
> their checks just fine, but my calls to wget::fetch and archive::untar both
> fire during every apply. Specifically, archive::untar takes about 30
> seconds to run and I'd prefer it if it only ran conditionally.
>
> What is the best way to make sure that this code:
>
> wget::fetch { "python-${version}":
> source => "
> http://python.org/ftp/python/${version}/Python-${version}.tgz";,
> destination => "/tmp/Python-${version}.tgz",
> }
>
> archive::untar {"/tmp/python-${version}":
> source => "/tmp/Python-${version}.tgz",
> compression => 'gz',
> rootdir => "Python-${version}",
> require => Wget::Fetch["python-${version}"],
> }
>
> only runs when some condition is met? I can easily put a custom file in
> place to look for, but how do I make these commands dependent on its
> absence? I tried making such a file and subscribing to it, but these
> commands still ran each time.
>
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