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Howdy, Trying to install dmg files with puppet. However, after running my manifest the .dmg file is never downloaded by curl. I tried pkgdmg and appdmg. I also tried using a local directory as the source. It seems to ignore any path I give as the source even totally bogus ones. 1 define pkg_deploy($sourcedir = false) { 2 $sourcedir_real = $sourcedir ? { 3 false => "http://webserver/folder/", 4...

Hello, I''ve got puppet installed and working. I''m looking for a way to update software on OS X desktops. I have successfully set up the appdmg package provider, and I can update an application. How do you manage installs? I want to update an application but not when the user is using the application. Is there a way to check if an application is running and do the package install later? How do people manage this? Or are more people le...

I noticed that is if I uninstall an MSI that was installed by Puppet, Puppet does not notice. Looking at the source I see it might be checking for a state file to know whether a package is installed or not: C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\puppet\var\db\package\msi\SplunkForwarder.yml So one has to rememebr to delete that too.... Is this design not a problem? Thanks, Mohamed. -- You received this

...get an error: "Could not set present on ensure: undefined method `[]'' for nil:NilClass at /etc/puppet/manifests/classes/darwin.pp:105" in darwin.pp I say: package { "findutils": ensure => installed, provider => fink } I had similar problems when deploying my appdmg.rb provider. I still use 0.22.1 Is it possible to deploy such new types as plugins, then they would be stored in /var/puppet/plugins and automatically synched. Thanks, udo.