Do you have a link for this #2128? All I can find are these:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2128
https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-2128
I'm nosy about the why. If you need to map the package to the provider this
seems like the perfect opportunity for create_resources(), but there's
something else going on here.
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 02:25:22PM -0700, Matt W wrote:
> Hey we have a problem that I think we need to solve with a custom Puppet
> provider, but I could use a bit of help getting started. Overall the issue
> of being able to install multiple packages at-once has been discussed a
> ton of times (issue #2128 for example). We ultimately need to be able to
> pass in an arbitrary list of packages (and their versions) to a
> package-like provider in Puppet and have it install them all at once. For
> example:
> package { 'myapp':
> packages => [ 'backend=1.0', 'frontend=1.1' ],
> provider => some_custom_provider;
> }
> Ultimately the provider would need to validate that each and every
> package supplied (backend, and frontend in this example) are either
> installed or not. If not, they are all installed on one commandline:
> aptitude install backend=1.0 frontend=1.1 -y -q -f
> Should we just build a resource from scratch? or do you think we should
> build a provider for the Package resource in Puppet and go from there?
>
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