Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet and FreeBSD

Jamie Scott
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:08:48 -0000

dkw, that worked!

Now I only need to use: package { ''mytop'': ensure =>
installed }

I can''t tell you how happy I am!

Thank you!!!
Jamie



On Monday, 23 April 2012 14:54:03 UTC+1, dkw wrote:
>
> Howdy:
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 06:29:38AM -0700, Jamie Scott wrote:
> > 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>*
> >
>
> To get rid of this error you have to build the puppet from ports
> on the freebsd client host and uncheck the PACKAGE_ORIGIN option.
> I don''t pretend to understand why.
>
> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/puppet ; make install
>
> # cat /var/db/ports/puppet/options
> # This file is auto-generated by ''make config''.
> # No user-servicable parts inside!
> # Options for puppet-2.7.12
> _OPTIONS_READ=puppet-2.7.12
> WITHOUT_MONGREL=true
> WITHOUT_PACKAGE_ORIGIN=true
> WITHOUT_PACKAGE_ROOT=true
>
> The below package stanza looks correct.
>
> -dkw
>
> >
> > 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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