MSIs can be installed from a url which may help keep the packages off of
each individual box. This means they are installable from a file share as
well. I am not sure about FTP support with MSIs.
Note that MSIs, not exe installers are the ones that work in this way.
Those would need to be accessible (but might still work with a file share).
I am not sure if this is desired for you or not.
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Louis <lmayorga1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have several windows boxes as puppet agents and most of them install
> packages the following way..
>
> file{
> ... make sure my .msi file is where i want
> }
>
> package{
> ... install the msi package from a local msi
> }
>
> Now, as a general rule Puppet will make sure that the .msi package is
> always there but the question is... Do I really want the package to be
> sitting there (even when i have big msi packages) or maybe i just want the
> file to be there only if the Package is not installed.
>
> Couldn't find a way to do it with Notify/Subscribe since that is done for
> a different purpose. If the package resource type could support the url to
> download the package then i wouldn't have a whole bunch of installers
> sitting there locally.
>
> Wondering if someone has the same issue. Linux is a different story
> regarding Packages because they all depend on their Package Manager.
>
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