[Puppet Users] Puppet and FreeBSD

Jamie Scott
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:29:38 -0000

Hello all,

Wondering if any of you could help me.

We''ve been using puppet on our CentOS servers for a while now with no
problems at all, very much out of the box.... but we do have some MySQL
servers running FreeBSD (for the slightly better memory utilisation).
I''ve
taken up the challenge to get these FreeBSD servers talking to our puppet
master but I''m having no ends of trouble with trying to get the
manifests
working. Forgetting the operating system variables and just going for a
straight install of a package such as mytop this is what I have tried in
our manifest:

This didn''t seem to work at all:

     package { ''mytop'': ensure => installed }

>

 Gave me this message on the server: *puppet-agent[3232]:
(/Stage[main]/Node[###########]/Package[mytop]/ensure) change from absent
to present failed: mytop: not in required origin format:
.*/<port_category>/<port_name>*


So instead I tried listing the full port name even with the provider:

    package { ''.*/databases/mytop'':
>             ensure => installed,
>             provider => freebsd,
>             }
>

Now it is giving me this message: *puppet-agent[3232]: (/Stage[main]//Node[*
*###########**]/Package[.*/databases/mytop]/ensure) change from absent to
present failed: Could not fetch ports INDEX: 500 Illegal PORT range
rejected.*

Even with specifiying a source:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/  I
don''t
seem to be getting very far!

Here is a print out of the debug log:

debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderFreebsd: Executing

> ''/usr/sbin/pkg_info -aoQ''
> debug: Package: .*/databases/mytop: origin =>
{:port_name=>"mytop",
> :port_category=>"databases"}
> debug: Package: .*/databases/mytop: source => #<URI::FTP:0x29869038
> URL:ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/>
> debug: Fetching INDEX: #<URI::FTP:0x298684e4
>
URL:ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/INDEX.bz2>
> err:
>
/Stage[main]//Node[boomer.sov.m-w.co.uk]/Package[.*/databases/mytop]/ensure:
> change from absent to present failed: Could not fetch ports INDEX: 500
> Illegal PORT range rejected.
>

Some odd behaviour I''ve noticed as well, when packages are already
installed it doesn''t seem to register as them being there.

Looking for information about puppet on FreeBSD is like trying to find a
needle in a haystack. I hope someone can help, any input would be
appreciated!

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