Thank you Gareth. What you state is what I was thinking. It looks like
for me Solaris 10 isn't going to have an easy option for upgrading packages
(and their dependencies) considering the environment in which I work.
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Warron French
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Gareth Rushgrove <gar...@morethanseven.net>
wrote:
> On 29 November 2015 at 03:54, Warron French <warron.fre...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello, I am working on writing my first puppet module. I am pretty
> skilled
> > in writing complex shell (bash, ksh, sh) scripts so I have some
> questions in
> > general about writing a thorough puppet module.
> >
> > I want to write a single puppet module to support installation,
> > configuration and service management of system audit (auditd for
> example) on
> > different operating systems. Specifically, Solaris 10 {x86|SPARC} and
> > CentOS {x86_64}.
> >
> > I know that if I have a yum repo (for CentOS) and run the command yum
> update
> > audit it will then update all of the dependencies automatically.
> >
> > So, my question is, do I need to provide syntax like the following:
> >
> > package {'audit':
> > ensure => latest,
> > name => "${auditpkg}",
> > require => Package['audit-libs']
> > }
> >
> > Or will the CentOS puppet agent node simply run the yum
> installation/update
> > automatically and update the audit-libs package; without any concerns?
> >
>
> This all depends on the package provider under the hood. In this case
> it sounds like that's Yum. So when Puppet runs here it will actually
> run Yum to install or update the package as required, in order to
> match the model you've described that the audit package should be the
> latest version. If that package automatically updates the audit-libs
> package (or other packages) that will happen too.
>
> > Also, and this probably might not be appropriate for this particular
> > email/post, but I would like to know, since Solaris 10 does not work with
> > repositories (correct me if I am wrong); do I need to skip the idea of
> > writing this module in support of Solaris 10 (even though my workplace is
> > still using it). I am not looking for opinions on this matter, I am
> looking
> > to know if there is a way to get puppet to update Solaris 10 systems with
> > puppet modules against software packages?
> >
>
> It depends here if you're using a package manager for Solaris already,
> or if you're open to using one. The difference being there are
> several, from memory non of which are standard, depending on your
> Solaris variant you're running.
>
> A quick check says the Puppet package resources supports pkgutil, sun,
> sunfreeware and blastwave which all target Solaris.
>
> You can find the details here:
> https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#package-providers
>
> Gareth
>
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