On Tue, 17 May 2011 15:18:16 +0200, Eric Veiras Galisson <[email protected]> wrote: > When using modules with Puppet, they are often done to deal with several > Linux distributions and several Debian releases. This can be used to > deal with different services names (like 'apache' is 'httpd' on > redhat-like) or package names. > For example the 'mailx' package is now named 'bsd-mailx' on squeeze and > later. > > The problem is Puppet uses the function lsb_release from the lsb-release > package which is not installed by default on Debian. > > Can it be possible to add the 'lsb-release' package to the puppet > dependencies?
This is not a core function of puppet, and bloating the dependencies is not a good idea. Just use a lsb module: cd modules; git clone git://labs.riseup.net/shared-lsb and then do: import "lsb" include lsb in your site.pp, or common.pp, or modules.pp or whatever you use.
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