Hi Chamila, It was introduced to host all packages (LB zip file, Active MQ jars ) in one place and puppet to fetch them from that location. We have those packs inside "files" folder in LB, ActiveMQ etc. However it is not used yet.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Imesh Gunaratne <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes as I can recall package_repo refers to a web server which hosts binary > packages. May be this is not needed now as we are storing packages in > puppet master itself. > > Thanks > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Chamila De Alwis <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> What is the purpose of the package_repo variable defined in the base.pp >> manifest? It seems from the older revisions this was supposed to be a file >> server of some sort which serves the needed packs such as JDK, Tomcat, >> Cartridge Agent etc. However, with Puppet's own `files` folder, do we need >> to keep this variable? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> Chamila de Alwis >> Software Engineer | WSO2 | +94772207163 >> Blog: code.chamiladealwis.com >> >> >> > > > -- > Imesh Gunaratne > > Technical Lead, WSO2 > Committer & PMC Member, Apache Stratos > -- Udara Liyanage Software Engineer WSO2, Inc.: http://wso2.com lean. enterprise. middleware web: http://udaraliyanage.wordpress.com phone: +94 71 443 6897
