Puppet users - Jun 2013 - Set environment variable that is visible to package installation

We have RPMs which requires an environment variable to be set prior to 
installation (contains conf information).  What is the best way to do 
this?  I''d like to avoid setting this environment var in each
systems''
profile.  It would be nice to have an option to do this within the package 
type, but I think that''s not very likely.

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You can get the environment variable from puppet.conf or if it is
another variable, you can use facter. As long as you are controlling
your packages you can check those after that.

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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:08:46AM -0700, Kevin Lange
wrote:
> We have RPMs which requires an environment variable to be set prior to 
> installation (contains conf information).  What is the best way to do 
> this?  I''d like to avoid setting this environment var in each
systems''
> profile.  It would be nice to have an option to do this within the package 
> type, but I think that''s not very likely.
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Another method is to use exec {} instead of package {} to install the rpm. 
This will enable you to set environment => ''BATCH=myval'',
path => [''/bin'',
''/usr/bin''] etc

use unless to check if the package is installed so it doesn''t try to 
install it multiple times.

On Friday, June 21, 2013 12:53:38 AM UTC+10, nikolavp
wrote:
>
> You can get the environment variable from puppet.conf or if it is 
> another variable, you can use facter. As long as you are controlling 
> your packages you can check those after that. 
>
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> Nikola 
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:08:46AM -0700, Kevin Lange wrote: 
> > We have RPMs which requires an environment variable to be set prior to
> > installation (contains conf information).  What is the best way to do 
> > this?  I''d like to avoid setting this environment var in each
systems''
> > profile.  It would be nice to have an option to do this within the 
> package 
> > type, but I think that''s not very likely. 
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