Puppet users - Sep 2012 - Set http_proxy environment variable for package install?

Hi,

I''m attempting to use Puppet with Vagrant to setup some boxes.

My desktop is sitting behind a corporate HTTP proxy.

This is my current (rather Spartan) manifests file:

package { "python-pip":
>     ensure => "installed"
> }
> package { "build-essential":
> ensure => "installed"
> }

When I do this, Vagrant appears to hang for a long time:

C:\vagrant\vagrant\precise64_vm>..\bin\vagrant reload
> [default] Attempting graceful shutdown of VM...
> [default] Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
> [default] Forwarding ports...
> [default] -- 22 => 2222 (adapter 1)
> [default] Creating shared folders metadata...
> [default] Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
> [default] Booting VM...
> [default] Waiting for VM to boot. This can take a few minutes.
> [default] VM booted and ready for use!
> [default] Mounting shared folders...
> [default] -- v-root: /vagrant
> [default] -- manifests: /tmp/vagrant-puppet/manifests
> [default] Running provisioner: Vagrant::Provisioners::Puppet...
> [default] Running Puppet with /tmp/vagrant-puppet/manifests/precise64.pp...
> stdin: is not a tty
> No LSB modules are available.
> [default] Waiting for cleanup before exiting...

My hunch is that it''s timing out since it can''t connect to the
Ubuntu
package repositories without the proxy.

How do you configure Puppet to set a environment variable that will be used 
in the package section?

I couldn''t seem to find much online except for this ticket 
- http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6400 - which seems to say it''s 
unsupported.

Is there another way to do it?

Cheers,
Victor

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On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Is there another way to do it?
Hi Victor,

Try setting http_proxy_host and http_proxy_port in your puppet.conf

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/configuration.html#httpproxyhost

You''ll have to configure your package providers for their own proxy,
like yum for example. Puppet is just issuing commands to those
software packages.

HTH,

--Ryan

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