Re: [Puppet Users] Cache for the local system while offline

Daniel Pittman
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:51:37 -0000

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 17:26, Khoury Brazil <khoury.brazil@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Daniel Pittman
<daniel@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 06:12, mukulm <smilemukul2005@gmail.com>
wrote:
>> >
>> > I want to cache the updates for the users system received from the
>> > server so that the users can get the updates
>> > from the local system cache while offline.
>> >
>> > Any idea how can server updates be stored on the users system
while
>> > offline  ?
>>
>> You likely want `--usecacheonfailure`, or the equivalent setting in
>> `puppet.conf`:
>>
>>
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/configuration.html#usecacheonfailure
>>
>> Whether to use the cached configuration when the remote configuration
>> will not compile. This option is useful for testing new
>> configurations, where you want to fix the broken configuration rather
>> than reverting to a known-good one.
>>
>> That should also apply when you can''t communicate with the
master.
>
> Unfortunately, at least in my case, when I run puppet on a client that
> is off of the network (in this particular case its a Macbook Pro) it
> seems that something is failing locally, causing a "warning: not using
> cache on failed catalog".
[…]
> This is the output from an offline debug run:
> macbookproagent:/ admin$ sudo puppet agent -t --debug

One of the features of the `-t` or `--test` flag is that it disables
use of the cached catalog when you can''t fetch it down.  Does it work
better if you don''t specify `--test`?

If not, please file a bug report. :)
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