Re: [Puppet Users] Re: packages and Solaris

Aaron Grewell
Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:08:09 -0000

We decided to distribute the pkg files the same way we do Linux
packages - via http.  This define has been very useful to us:

    define pkg_http($version,$source, $adminfile, $responsefile=undef){
        exec {"/usr/sfw/bin/wget $source -O
/var/tmp/$name-$version.pkg":
            unless => "/usr/bin/test -f
/var/tmp/$name-$version.pkg",
            alias  => "wget_$name",
        } # exec

        package { "$name":
            ensure   => ''installed'',
            provider => ''sun'',
            source   => "/var/tmp/$name-$version.pkg",
            adminfile => "$adminfile",
            responsefile => $responsefile,
            require      => Exec["wget_$name"],
        } # package
    } # define pkg_http

Our typical admin file looks like this:
mailinstance=unique
partial=nocheck
runlevel=nocheck
idepend=nocheck
rdepend=nocheck
space=nocheck
setuid=nocheck
conflict=nocheck
action=nocheck
networktimeout=60
networkretries=3
authentication=quit
keystore=/var/sadm/security
proxybasedir=default

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Bill Proud <billproud@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> You need to use the adminfile and source parameters - once you have
> done that the provider works just fine.
>
> On Dec 28, 4:19 pm, Peter Berghold <salty.cowd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I''m about to propose to my current company that we use puppet
to manage
>> releases of home grown software.  The environment is a mix of Solaris
>> 8/9/10 and RHEL 5&6.
>>
>> I''ve got a handle on how to create recipes to release software
into the
>> RHEL environment.  The unknown for me is how to manipulate the pkgadd
>> provider to load the locally grown package stream.  Can someone guide
me in
>> the right direction.
>>
>> --
>> Peter L. Berghold
>> Owner, Shark River Technical Solutions LLC
>> Custom hosting provider.
>
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