Issue #4113 has been updated by Daniel Pittman.
> I’m not at all convinced that the plethora of possible features that people
> would use a generic ‘options’ field with make sense to spend time modeling.
[…]
> Why not offer a general options field? Then as people start to use it, we’ll
> end up identifying more things that can be actually modelled.
I am not sure what you are actually suggesting here. However, to be clear:
If we provide a generic field like "options", and that contains
anything more than boolean values, or *maybe* a hash that contains
rich data structures (eg: string, array, hash), we have lost. That
would be terrible. We should absolutely model provider-specific
features in the Puppet language, not in some arbitrary DSL embedded in
strings.
Concretely, this is good:
<pre>package { "foo": ensure => installed, enablerepo => ['one', 'two'] }</pre>
This is not good:
<pre>package { "foo": ensure => installed, options =>
"enablerepo=one,two" }</pre>
The difference is that the second is impossible to understand without
specialized prior knowledge of the significance of every possible
option, and what is valid or invalid. It creates a tiny language for
"package provider options for the yum provider" that has no more
features than the Puppet DSL.
This is also good, IMO:
<pre>package { "foo": ensure => installed, options => { 'enablerepo'
=> ['one', 'two'] } }<pre>
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Feature #4113: Provide a generic "options"-style parameter for packages.
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4113
Author: Oliver Hookins
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version: 2.7.x
Affected Puppet version: 0.25.5
Keywords:
Branch:
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/2ef615fc42225d99?pli=1
Our requirement is more or less the same as in the linked thread, we need to
use a proxy to install gems but for a variety of reasons can't set a global
proxy on the machines. Thus some way of passing options to gem is necessary.
(Nigel) - We should do this consistently across providers, perhaps combining
with the "preseed" functionality of apt/dpkg.
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