Hi everyone, one of our internal modules contains a custom type/provider which needs an additional Ruby gem to function properly. For pure Ruby gems, I usually solve this by adding the following snippet, for example in mymodule/lib/puppet-x/common.rb:
begin gem 'somegem' rescue Gem::LoadError Gem.install('somegem') gem 'somegem' end which will happily install "somegem" on the agents during the plugin sync phase, regardless of OS. The problem now is that I want to enhance the provider's functionality, for which I'd need another gem, which this time includes "native extensions" (some C code). This might work on some Linux agents, which coincidentally have the needed tools installed (gcc, make, ...), but will fail on those which don't have these tools and most likely on Windows as well. So how do people here solve this problem? Thanks... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs Senior Systems Engineer, Delivery Pipeline OpenText ™ Discovery | Recommind Phone: +49 2226 15966 18 Email: dhein...@opentext.com<mailto:dhein...@opentext.com> Website: www.recommind.de Recommind GmbH, Von-Liebig-Straße 1, 53359 Rheinbach Vertretungsberechtigte Geschäftsführer Gordon Davies, Madhu Ranganathan, Christian Waida, Registergericht Amtsgericht Bonn, Registernummer HRB 10646 This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail sind nicht gestattet. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/22a8751933c12cb6b229c8622c8362d52cb6953d.camel%40opentext.com.