On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Roy Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Nigel,
>
> Have you had a chance to look at that patch?

it's on my list for today :)

>
> 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.
>> >> >
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