Jacob Helwig
2011-Sep-12 17:21 UTC
[Puppet Users] Open Source Team iteration & planning summary 2011-09-12
install.rb now provides a more helpful error message when the
win32-dir gem is missing (#9174). The sys-admin, win32-process,
win32-dir, and win32-service gems are required to run Puppet on
Windows, and win32-dir is required for install.rb. This was merged
into the 2.7.x branch.
MSI "packages" can now be installed and managed on Windows (#8412).
In addition to installing via MSI files, any parameters that would
have been specified on the command-line to msiexec.exe can be
specified in an install_options hash on the package resource. For
example:
package { ''mysql'':
provider => msi,
source => ''E:\mysql.msi'',
ensure => installed,
install_options => { ''INSTALLDIR'' =>
''C:\mysql'' },
}
This was merged into the 2.7.x branch.
Places that were hard coded to use '':'' as a path separator
have been
updated to use File::PATH_SEPARATOR (#8489). By using
File::PATH_SEPARATOR Windows is now properly handled, since its
default path separator is '';''. This was merged into the 2.7.x
branch.
Checking for elevated privileges on Windows now better handles the
differences between Windows 2003, 2003 R2, and 2008 (#8662).
Previously the error message from the API call was used to determine
if UAC was supported, or if we were not running with elevated
privileges. This updates the code to only use the API call on
platforms where it is expected to fail due to non-elevated privileges.
This was merged into the 2.7.x branch.
Windows will now properly clean up its PID file (#8413). Windows will
raise a different exception if the PID in question is not found, and
this is now also looked for if the exception class is defined. This
was merged into the 2.7.x branch.
Facter fact support has been fleshed out on Windows (#8439). This
includes updates to the macaddress, ps, ipaddress6, processor
information, and interface-specific IP facts. This was merged into
the master branch of Facter.
Completed items:
* #9174 - Improve puppet installer error message on Windows
* #8412 - MSI package provider for Windows
* #8489 - Puppet does not consistently use File::PATH_SEPARATOR
* #8662 - Puppet.features.root? always returns true on Windows
* #8413 - Ability to run Puppet as an agent on Windows
* #8439 - Basic facter on Windows
Current backlog:
* #8414 - Task scheduler type/provider for Windows
* #8411 - File type working on Windows
* #9186 - Windows file security support
* #9189 - File provider on Windows
* #7316 - puppet applications delivered via pluginsync don''t work.
* #5517 - Overriding parameters on included & inherited classes
* #3741 - Custom facts loaded multiple times
* #4916 - Plugins should not be able to override core functionality.
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