On 3/13/15 10:45 AM, Alex Miroshnik wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I need to install multiple packages on the Ubuntu 14.0.4 using puppet.
> All packages are listed in the file (about 100 packages) one package
> name on the row. Is this possible? If it is possible, could you please
> give me a hint how to do this.
> I know I can specify the array of the packages:
>
> $pkg_list = [ "pkg1", "pkg2", "pkg3" ]
> package { $pkg_list: ensure => "installed" }
>
> but this is not my case as I have quite a few packages in the list.
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
Hi Alex,
You could do this with my types module[1]. You would list all of the
packages in Hiera and then simply 'include types' on your node and all
of the packages you have listed would be installed. Here's a quick shell
script to format your list of packages into YAML[2].
[1] - https://github.com/ghoneycutt/puppet-module-types#package
[2] - https://gist.github.com/ghoneycutt/03102b7f95f09bf45af9
Best regards,
-g
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