Puppet users - Feb 2009 - Require package not working as expected

I have the following as part of a module:

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    # Ensure "lsb-release" installed
    package {"lsb-release":
        ensure  => installed,
    }

    # Use our sources.list
    file { "/etc/apt/sources.list":
        owner   => root,
        group   => root,
        mode    => 644,
        content => template("tclbase/sources.erb"),
        require => [ Package["lsb-release"], Exec["Import
$aptkey_volatile
to apt keystore"] ] }
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This works on some systems, but fails on at least one other with:

err: Could not retrieve catalog: Failed to parse template
tclbase/sources.erb: Could not find value for
''lsbdistcodename''
at /etc/puppet/modules/tclbase/manifests/init.pp:77 on node
[deleted]

The value ''lsbdistcodename'' comes from facter, but on Debian
systems it
requires lsb-release to be installed. On the system in question,
lsb-release is not installed, hence the failure above. However, given the
"require" statement above, why isn''t lsb-release installed?

Thanks.

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Hi,

Facter runs and transffer the  facts to the server before any config
is actully done on the client ( puppet needs the facts to decide which
configs to send to the client).
Your only way around this is to install the package before the first
puppet run or wait for the second run (and handle the nil value in the
template...)

Ohad

On 2/23/09, Keith Edmunds <kae@midnighthax.com>
wrote:
>
> I have the following as part of a module:
>
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     # Ensure "lsb-release" installed
>     package {"lsb-release":
>         ensure  => installed,
>     }
>
>     # Use our sources.list
>     file { "/etc/apt/sources.list":
>         owner   => root,
>         group   => root,
>         mode    => 644,
>         content => template("tclbase/sources.erb"),
>         require => [ Package["lsb-release"], Exec["Import
$aptkey_volatile
> to apt keystore"] ] }
>
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>
> This works on some systems, but fails on at least one other with:
>
> err: Could not retrieve catalog: Failed to parse template
> tclbase/sources.erb: Could not find value for
''lsbdistcodename''
> at /etc/puppet/modules/tclbase/manifests/init.pp:77 on node
> [deleted]
>
> The value ''lsbdistcodename'' comes from facter, but on
Debian systems it
> requires lsb-release to be installed. On the system in question,
> lsb-release is not installed, hence the failure above. However, given the
> "require" statement above, why isn''t lsb-release
installed?
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
>
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> Your only way around this is to install the package before the first
> puppet run or wait for the second run (and handle the nil value in the
> template...)
Thanks, that makes sense.

I''m trying to handle the nil value in the template with:

<% if has_variable?("lsbdistcodename") and lsbdistcodename ==
"etch" %>

..but that still gives "Could not find value for
''lsbdistcodename'' at ..."

Sorry, I''m not a Ruby person (that''s slowly changing), so what
syntax
should be used?

Thanks.

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On 2/23/2009 7:15 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
> Your only way around this is to install the package before the first 
> puppet run or wait for the second run (and handle the nil value in
> the template...)
The first option is what I''ve always done. Since I''m spending
part of
the morning rebuilding a system with a new hard drive in it, I''m also 
working up putting newer Puppet and Facter packages into my Debian etch 
preseed installs with:

   # Add openssh-server plus newer puppet dependencies
   d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server ruby libxmlrpc-ruby 
libopenssl-ruby adduser lsb-base lsb-release libshadow-ruby1.8

   d-i preseed/late_command string wget -O 
/target/root/facter_1.5.1-0.1_all.deb 
http://HOST/PATH/TO/facter_1.5.1-0.1_all.deb ; wget -O 
/target/root/puppet_0.24.6-1_all.deb 
http://HOST/PATH/TO/puppet_0.24.6-1_all.deb ; in-target dpkg 
--force-confold -i /root/facter_1.5.1-0.1_all.deb 
/root/puppet_0.24.6-1_all.deb ; wget -O /target/etc/puppet/puppet.conf 
http://HOST/PATH/TO/puppet.conf

For existing installations, I''d just replace ''ssh host
"apt-get install
puppet"'' with ''ssh host "apt-get install lsb-release
puppet"''

-- 
Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University

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