Puppet users - Oct 2007 - "run once" directive for service or package

hi,

is there a way to specify that something is to be run only once, upon 
install of the package?

i''m trying to automate the installation of some services and their 
requisite packages. some of them require setting up various things 
afterwards (user, passwords, etc).

i know i could have it done via exec & onlyif. however there are obvious 
security issues with trusting the existence of a local file...

i''d also prefer to not manually repackage certain applications.

thanks

-scott

On Oct 11, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Scott Smith wrote:
> hi,
>
> is there a way to specify that something is to be run only once, upon
> install of the package?
You can use an exec with refreshonly to only do something when a  
package is installed or upgraded, which is equivalent if you never  
use Puppet to upgrade the package.  Otherwise, no, there''s no  
facility for this right now.
> i know i could have it done via exec & onlyif. however there are  
> obvious
> security issues with trusting the existence of a local file...
Look at ''refreshonly'', not ''onlyif''.
> i''d also prefer to not manually repackage certain applications.
I don''t undertand what you mean here.

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Luke Kanies wrote:
> You can use an exec with refreshonly to only do something when a  
> package is installed or upgraded, which is equivalent if you never  
> use Puppet to upgrade the package.  Otherwise, no, there''s no  
> facility for this right now.
ah, cool. that works much better than what i came up with! thanks.

-scott