Re: [Puppet Users] Solaris / OpenSolaris package management

Alan Barrett
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:05:19 -0000

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, James Turnbull wrote:
> My manifests looks like:
>
> Package { source => "http://pkg.opensolaris.org/" }
>
> package { "SUNWgit":
>    ensure => installed,
> }

The "sun" package provider needs the "source" parameter to
be a a
filename or an URL to the individual package, not an URL to a collection
of many packages.  I have been using the "blastwave" provider, with a
custom config file that points to a private package repository.

--apb (Alan Barrett)