Re: [Puppet Users] Prompting fact refresh from Puppet Event

Nigel Kersten
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:38:53 -0000

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Trevor Vaughan
<tvaughan@onyxpoint.com>wrote:

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> No, because I''m not picking the 64 bit version.
>
> Someone else is picking the version and I have to figure out what it is
> and "do the right thing", making for extra fun times.
>

Are their version choices sane? You can''t look at the arch of the
machine
and work out which version got installed?



>
> Thanks though,
>
> Trevor
>
> On 12/15/2010 10:12 AM, Felix Frank wrote:
> > On 12/15/2010 03:46 PM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
> >> Is is possible to spawn a puppet fact refresh from the completion
of an
> event?
> >>
> >> Here''s the scenario:
> >>
> >> 64-bit system, either a 64 or 32 bit application
''foo'' could be
> installed.
> >>
> >> If the 64 bit version is installed, foo.conf needs to be
configured
> >> with a prepended lib64 path. If not, then the 32bit default is
fine.
> >>
> >> The only thing that I could come up with is a custom fact that
returns
> >> the architecture of the installed package and then adjust the path
> >> based on that.
> >>
> >> However, this takes *two* puppet runs to complete and I would like
to
> >> get this down to one run by prompting a fact refresh after the
package
> >> is installed.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any suggestions/techniques?
> >
> > Hrm, your manifest should be able to handle this one on its own.
> >
> > Assuming your foo.conf file is part of the foo::config class, add this
> > subclass:
> > foo::config::arch64bit {
> >   File["/etc/foo.conf"] { source => "..." }
> > }
> >
> > Then, at the place in the manifest where you pick the 64bit version of
> > the foo application, add an "include
foo::config::arch64bit".
> >
> > Will this work for your manifest?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Felix
> >
>
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