Puppet users - Dec 2008 - Package provider that depends on another package (PEAR)

I''ve installed this PEAR package provider:
http://www.mit.edu/~marthag/puppet/pear.rb

It works quite well, but on a freshly installed system package
prefetching fails if the "pear" tool is not yet installed.  Is there
some way to disable the prefetch if PEAR doesn''t exist, only
attempting to use the PEAR provider once its prerequisites have been
installed?

Currently all PEAR packages fail to install on the first pass,
requiring a second run of puppetd to install them.

Thanks!

-Ben


root@test02:~# puppetd --test
info: Retrieving plugins
notice: Ignoring cache
info: Caching catalog at /var/lib/puppet/state/localconfig.yaml
notice: Starting catalog run
err: Could not prefetch package provider ''pear'': Could not
list pears:
Execution of '' list'' returned 256:
[:snip:]

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Hi
> I''ve installed this PEAR package provider:
> http://www.mit.edu/~marthag/puppet/pear.rb
> 
> It works quite well, but on a freshly installed system package
> prefetching fails if the "pear" tool is not yet installed.  Is
there
> some way to disable the prefetch if PEAR doesn''t exist, only
> attempting to use the PEAR provider once its prerequisites have been
> installed?
> 
> Currently all PEAR packages fail to install on the first pass,
> requiring a second run of puppetd to install them.

which version are your running? Because I think I had a similar problem
with another custom type: http://markmail.org/message/mztfu6hw47qmbleq
and It seems to be fixed. well at least I didn''t encounter the problem
anymore after 0.24.4

cheers pete

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version 0.24.4

From reading your thread it sounds like we have similar, but not quite
identical, problems.  In my case it''s because the custom type is a
provider for the "package" type.  As a result it tries to prefetch the
status of its packages, which fails.

-Ben

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Peter Meier <peter.meier@immerda.ch>
wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>> I''ve installed this PEAR package provider:
>> http://www.mit.edu/~marthag/puppet/pear.rb
>>
>> It works quite well, but on a freshly installed system package
>> prefetching fails if the "pear" tool is not yet installed. 
Is there
>> some way to disable the prefetch if PEAR doesn''t exist, only
>> attempting to use the PEAR provider once its prerequisites have been
>> installed?
>>
>> Currently all PEAR packages fail to install on the first pass,
>> requiring a second run of puppetd to install them.
>
>
> which version are your running? Because I think I had a similar problem
> with another custom type: http://markmail.org/message/mztfu6hw47qmbleq
> and It seems to be fixed. well at least I didn''t encounter the
problem
> anymore after 0.24.4
>
> cheers pete
>
> >
>
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