Puppet users - Jul 2008 - How can you specify a default package provider per OS?

Greetings,

I now have the good fortune to add CentOS as second OS into the mix of 
servers we''re managing. Our primary OS is Debian, and I''ve
defined
aptitude as the provider of packages within my classes. This, 
unfortunately but not surprisingly, is not making the CentOS servers 
very happy.

Before I go and re-write my classes to either remove the provider or to 
replace it with a case statement, I was hoping to be able to specify 
within my $operatingsystem classes (or where ever it works) a default 
provider for each particular OS. My searching didn''t turn anything up, 
so I''m hoping someone can share how they''ve solved this
problem.

Thanks,

- Jeff

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On Jul 29, 1:27 pm, Jeff Adams <jeff.ad...@kw.com>
wrote:
>
> I now have the good fortune to add CentOS as second OS into the mix of
> servers we''re managing. Our primary OS is Debian, and
I''ve defined
> aptitude as the provider of packages within my classes. This,
> unfortunately but not surprisingly, is not making the CentOS servers
> very happy.
What is wrong with letting Puppet pick the provider by default?
> Before I go and re-write my classes to either remove the provider or to
> replace it with a case statement, I was hoping to be able to specify
> within my $operatingsystem classes (or where ever it works) a default
You can set a per-resource type default at the "site" level in site.pp
before any imports/includes, or at a per-class namespace level. I
haven''t done this with a selector for OS''s, but this should
work:

Package {
  provider => $operatingsystem ? {
    centos => "yum",
    debian => "apt",
    default => undef
  }
}
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:27:09PM -0500, Jeff Adams
wrote:
> I''ve defined 
> aptitude as the provider of packages within my classes.
Just a friendly FYI: aptitude may not be the best provider to use:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445035

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