[Puppet Users] Freezes at "debug: file_metadata supports formats:"

2011-07-12 Thread Mathew Binkley
Hi. I have a client and server running Puppet 2.7.1 from GEMS (though the same problem occurs using the Ubuntu Lucid standard packages). I try to update the client against the server, and it freezes at this line: debug: file_metadata supports formats: b64_zlib_yaml marshal pson raw yaml; usi

[Puppet Users] How to efficiently manage multiple packages installing in the same directory

2010-03-09 Thread Mathew Binkley
Hi everyone. I am trying to manage several different packages using Puppet. For the sake of maintainability, each package is installed in its own separate puppet directory. Each package would have a separate install_package.pp script and corresponding folder in /etc/puppet/ files on the server:

Re: [Puppet Users] How to efficiently manage multiple packages installing in the same directory

2010-03-10 Thread Mathew Binkley
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: > Yeah, I would recommend not doing this, and would want to know more > about the use case around why you wanted to do it that way. Hi Michael (and Patrick and Claus). We are in heavy development of a storage app, as well as collaborating w

[Puppet Users] Help with a simple example

2008-12-10 Thread Mathew Binkley
Hi. I'm hoping that someone can help me with a simple example. We are trying to use puppet to update a server binary to a group of machines. Here's pseudocode for what I'm trying: if (server_binary has changed) { 1) stop the old server 2) overwrite the old server binary by

[Puppet Users] Help with a simple example

2008-12-10 Thread Mathew Binkley
Hi. I'm hoping that someone can help me with a simple example. We are trying to use puppet to update a server binary to a group of machines. Here's pseudocode for what I'm trying: if (server_binary has changed) { 1) stop the old server 2) overwrite the old server binary by

[Puppet Users] Re: Help with a simple example

2008-12-11 Thread Mathew Binkley
k (untested): > > > >> file { "/tmp/server_binary": > > >>       source  => "puppet:///files/server_binary", > > >>       notify => Exec["stop-server"]; > > >> } > > > >> file { "/u

[Puppet Users] Question on usage case

2009-01-09 Thread Mathew Binkley
Forgive a newbie question, but... I would like to plug in a USB key that has a base install of Debian + Puppet into a machine, and use Puppet to provision the key from a central server. What have have tried has not worked, and I'm hoping someone can point out my problem. ---

[Puppet Users] Re: Question on usage case

2009-01-09 Thread Mathew Binkley
Hi Mark. I do have a import "classes/*" at the top of my site.pp file, so I'm afraid it's not that. Thanks for the idea though. On Jan 9, 4:04 pm, Mark Drayton wrote: > Hi Mat > > On Jan 9, 9:38 pm, "Mathew Binkley" wrote: > > > >

[Puppet Users] Re: Question on usage case

2009-01-12 Thread Mathew Binkley
make requests to the puppetmaster? > > What do the puppetd logs look like?  What about the puppetmaster logs if > there is a request? > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Mathew Binkley wrote: > > > > > Forgive a newbie question, but...  I would like to plug in a US