Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet on Windows (Package and File Dependencies)

2014-03-17 Thread Rob Reynolds
MSIs can be installed from a url which may help keep the packages off of each individual box. This means they are installable from a file share as well. I am not sure about FTP support with MSIs. Note that MSIs, not exe installers are the ones that work in this way. Those would need to be accessib

[Puppet Users] Puppet on Windows (Package and File Dependencies)

2014-03-13 Thread Louis
I have several windows boxes as puppet agents and most of them install packages the following way.. file{ ... make sure my .msi file is where i want } package{ ... install the msi package from a local msi } Now, as a general rule Puppet will make sure that the .msi package