Re: [Puppet Users] Custom provider

Stefan Schulte
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:55:07 -0000

Put your provider in /etc/puppet/modules/mymodule/lib/
  puppet/provider/package/myprovider.rb

Notice the provider/TYPE subfolder

Hope this does the trick

-Stefan
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 07:52:48AM -0700, SiD wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I''ve recently created a new custom provider. I put it into
/etc/puppet/
> modules/mymodule/lib/puppet/provider/myprovider.rb
>
> So it works fine, at least at the first.
>
> puppet-agent[8329]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet]/ensure) created
> puppet-agent[8329]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/provider]/
> ensure) created
> puppet-agent[8329]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/provider/
> myprovider.rb]/ensure) defined content as ''{md5}
> 13be544b81b7e77abfec081b912c4b1f''
>
> Then, everytime when Puppet reload the configuration, Puppet can not
> find my custom provider anymore :
>
> puppet-agent[11205]: Could not run Puppet configuration client:
> Parameter provider failed: Invalid package provider
''myprovider'' at /
> etc/puppet/modules/mymodule/manifests/init.pp:10
>
> Line number 10, it''s the call to my custom provider :
>
>   package {
>     "mymodule":
>       ensure   => installed,
>       provider => "myprovider",
>       source   => "/home/mymodule.rpm",
>       vendor   => "--prefix=/myprefix";
>   }
>
> $ rpm -aq | grep puppet
> puppet-2.6.1-0.3.rc3.el5
>
> I''ve also tired with Puppet 2.6.0, but same trouble.
>
>
>
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