Hello Nigel, Have you had a chance to look at that patch?
Thanks, -Roy On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Nigel Kersten <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Roy Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Nigel, > > > > Yes, I'd prefer to have the ability to install a flat package integrated > > into the pkgdmg package provider. I attached a patch to > > http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/3378 . > > Excellent. I'll have a look at that. > > Have you guys thought about improving the way the pkgdmg provider > decides whether or not a given package is installed? > > The fundamental problem is that there's no intrinsic link between the > supplied URI and the package identifiers of any packages it provides, > and I've yet to come up with a solution better than the marker files > in /var/db/ :( > > > > > The reason I went ahead and tried getting it working as a custom provider > is > > that I really wanted to test the ability to have a custom provider, and > have > > that as an example to write future custom providers. > > > > Thanks! > > -Roy > > > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Nigel Kersten <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Roy, is the longer term plan to instead patch pkgdmg so it looks at > >> the url and treats anything ending in .pkg as a flat package? > >> > >> I think that was your plan from the bug report, and that feels like a > >> much better idea to me. We should be able to have the one provider > >> work with pkg.dmg and pkg > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Peter Meier wrote: > >> > > >> >> > >> >>> Puppet::Type.type(:package).provider(:flatpkg, :parent => > >> >>> Puppet::Provider::Package) do > >> >> > >> >> assuming that this is line 25 and that all the other providers use > >> >> Puppet::Type.type(:package).provide (without an r) this might be the > >> >> cause? > >> > > >> > Nailed it. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > My favorite was a professor at a University I Used To Be Associated > >> > With who claimed that our requirement of a non-alphabetic character in > >> > our passwords was an abridgement of his freedom of speech. > >> > -- Jacob Haller > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > Luke Kanies -|- http://reductivelabs.com -|- +1(615)594-8199 > >> > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups > >> > "Puppet Developers" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > [email protected]<puppet-dev%[email protected]> > . > >> > For more options, visit this group at > >> > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> nigel > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Puppet Developers" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<puppet-dev%[email protected]> > . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<puppet-dev%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > nigel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<puppet-dev%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
