Puppet users - Oct 2007 - download, run and delete file

Hello

I try the following:
1. Check if a file is present
2. if not, download some files to an directory in /tmp and run one
3. remove the files and the directoy from /tmp

1 and 2 are easy, here is my definition:

class netcool
{

        exec { "/bin/bash /tmp/netcool/silentinstall.sh":
                cwd => "/tmp/netcool",
                path => "/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin",
                creates =>
"/opt/netcool/ssm/bin/init.nco_m_ssmagent",
                require =>  File["/tmp/netcool"]
        }
        file { "/tmp/netcool":
                source =>
"puppet://10.32.29.29/dist/os/linux/netcool",
                backup => false,
                mode => 644,
                owner => root,
                group => root,
                recurse => true
        }
}


that works so far. But if i (manually) delete /tmp/netcool, the next 
time i run puppet, it will downloaded again. Is there a
Way to get rid of these Files?

Thanks

Jan Hebler

PS. Sorry for my bad english

Jan Hebler wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I try the following:
> 1. Check if a file is present
> 2. if not, download some files to an directory in /tmp and run one
> 3. remove the files and the directoy from /tmp
> 
> 1 and 2 are easy, here is my definition:
> 
> class netcool
> {
> 
>         exec { "/bin/bash /tmp/netcool/silentinstall.sh":
>                 cwd => "/tmp/netcool",
>                 path => "/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin",
>                 creates =>
"/opt/netcool/ssm/bin/init.nco_m_ssmagent",
>                 require =>  File["/tmp/netcool"]
>         }
>         file { "/tmp/netcool":
>                 source =>
"puppet://10.32.29.29/dist/os/linux/netcool",
>                 backup => false,
>                 mode => 644,
>                 owner => root,
>                 group => root,
>                 recurse => true
>         }
> }
> 
> 
> that works so far. But if i (manually) delete /tmp/netcool, the next 
> time i run puppet, it will downloaded again. Is there a
> Way to get rid of these Files?
> 
You probably shouldn''t use a file resource to fetch the distributable. 
Use an exec to do both the copying of the installation files and to 
install it. When you manage a file/directory with a file resource, it 
kinda becomes permanent.

I think the proper way to do it would be to create a package wrapper for 
whatever OS you''re using (RPM, DPKG, etc...) and manage it with a 
package resource.

-- 
Russell A. Jackson <raj@csub.edu>
Network Analyst
California State University, Bakersfield

John Birch Society:
	That pathetic manifestation of organized apoplexy.
		-- Edward P. Morgan

Russell Jackson schrieb:
> Jan Hebler wrote:
>   
>> Hello
>>
>> I try the following:
>> 1. Check if a file is present
>> 2. if not, download some files to an directory in /tmp and run one
>> 3. remove the files and the directoy from /tmp
>>
>> 1 and 2 are easy, here is my definition:
>>
>> class netcool
>> {
>>
>>         exec { "/bin/bash /tmp/netcool/silentinstall.sh":
>>                 cwd => "/tmp/netcool",
>>                 path => "/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin",
>>                 creates =>
"/opt/netcool/ssm/bin/init.nco_m_ssmagent",
>>                 require =>  File["/tmp/netcool"]
>>         }
>>         file { "/tmp/netcool":
>>                 source =>
"puppet://10.32.29.29/dist/os/linux/netcool",
>>                 backup => false,
>>                 mode => 644,
>>                 owner => root,
>>                 group => root,
>>                 recurse => true
>>         }
>> }
>>
>>
>> that works so far. But if i (manually) delete /tmp/netcool, the next 
>> time i run puppet, it will downloaded again. Is there a
>> Way to get rid of these Files?
>>
>>     
>
> You probably shouldn''t use a file resource to fetch the
distributable.
> Use an exec to do both the copying of the installation files and to 
> install it. When you manage a file/directory with a file resource, it 
> kinda becomes permanent.
>   
Thats too bad because i want to use puppet as the source for Files
> I think the proper way to do it would be to create a package wrapper for 
> whatever OS you''re using (RPM, DPKG, etc...) and manage it with a 
> package resource.
>   
This is true for the current example, but i have a Bunch of other Tasks 
like Oracle-patches,
Software that is delivered as shar and so on.

bye Jan

--On Saturday, October 27, 2007 9:01 AM +0200 Jan Hebler <jan@hebler.de> 
wrote:
> Hello
>
> I try the following:
> 1. Check if a file is present
> 2. if not, download some files to an directory in /tmp and run one
> 3. remove the files and the directoy from /tmp
>
> 1 and 2 are easy, here is my definition:
>
> class netcool
> {
>
>         exec { "/bin/bash /tmp/netcool/silentinstall.sh":
>                 cwd => "/tmp/netcool",
>                 path => "/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin",
>                 creates =>
"/opt/netcool/ssm/bin/init.nco_m_ssmagent",
>                 require =>  File["/tmp/netcool"]
>         }
>         file { "/tmp/netcool":
>                 source =>
"puppet://10.32.29.29/dist/os/linux/netcool",
>                 backup => false,
>                 mode => 644,
>                 owner => root,
>                 group => root,
>                 recurse => true
>         }
> }
>
>
> that works so far. But if i (manually) delete /tmp/netcool, the next
> time i run puppet, it will downloaded again. Is there a
> Way to get rid of these Files?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jan Hebler
>
> PS. Sorry for my bad english
>
>
>
>
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It doesn''t seem like puppet really has a type what you are doing. 
Puzzling.  Maybe there is a different want to think about this problem?