Puppet users - Jan 2010 - Newbie question: how to handle prompts from packages?

For example, I''ve installed puppet on ubuntu. Say I want to use it to
install an ubuntu package like moodle or mysql-server, puppet is
hanging in the background waiting for a response to a question.

(Installation of these packages normally interacts with the user to
ask for passwords, etc)

So how do I configure puppet to accommodate this?

I''ve searched through the docs, and googled, but can''t find
any
references to this, so any pointers would be gratefully received.

TIA
Rachel

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On 27/01/10 8:52 PM, Rachel wrote:
> For example, I''ve installed puppet on ubuntu. Say I want to use it
to
> install an ubuntu package like moodle or mysql-server, puppet is
> hanging in the background waiting for a response to a question.
> 
> (Installation of these packages normally interacts with the user to
> ask for passwords, etc)
> 
See the responsefile attribute of the package type.

http://docs.reductivelabs.com/references/stable/type.html#package

Regards

James Turnbull

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Thanks, that''s exactly what I was looking for.
Rachel

P.S. James, I ordered your book yesterday from Amazon, so hopefully
all my other newbie questions will be answered there :-)

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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:11:49PM +1100, James Turnbull
wrote:
> See the responsefile attribute of the package type.
> 
> http://docs.reductivelabs.com/references/stable/type.html#package
You can do that now?  Oooooooooh.  That makes me happy, and I love Debian :-)

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