Hi All!
The tl;dr version:
Can anyone point me at an example of an existing provider that selects
a particular command based not on a facter fact or whether a particular
path exists, but instead on a variable from a puppet class?
The full version:
We have puppet 3.4.2 on master and all agents, generally from the
PuppetLabs packages for OpenSource puppet.
Red Hat has begun providing alternate (updated) versions of some packages
as part of its "Software Collections Library", aka SCL. If you have
a RHEL 6.5 system subscribed to the appropriate software collections
channel, it's entirely possible to have something like this:
$ rpm -q -f /usr/bin/mysql
mysql-5.1.73-3.el6_5.x86_64
$ rpm -q -f /opt/rh/mysql55/root/usr/bin/mysql
mysql55-mysql-5.5.36-1.1.el6.x86_64
For a provider that relies on the mysql command-line tool to accomplish
certain tasks, it's no longer a great solution to just do
commands :mysql => 'mysql'
I also don't want to just have it always use the binary from
/opt/rh/mysql55/root/usr/bin/mysql if it's present, since it's at least
conceivable that one might need to use a particular version of the client
when accessing a particular database.
The best idea I've come up with is to have the provider decide which
specific version of a command to use based on a variable that has already
been set in the class, but I haven't found any examples of providers that
do that. If anyone can point me at some prior art, I would greatly
appreciate it.
Thanks,
Tim
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