Hi puppet-dev, TL;DR - I'm thinking about shipping minitar with puppet to make module install/build work consistently (and to ease development) (see: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15841) and wanted some feedback
------ So in case you don't already know - the puppet module face utilises system tar and gzip to unpack and pack modules. This has been troublesome for me - and I anticipate it will continue to cause trouble. Case in point - I was pondering the following ticket: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/14333 And how one would implement it in a tar implementation agnostic way. The problem is, every tar implementation (bsd, sun, gnu) have different switches to support this requirement. I wanted however to zoom out and propose that we instead start bundling our own version of archive-tar-minitar with Puppet for this very use case, plus for some other reasons: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar https://rubygems.org/gems/archive-tar-minitar So as another example of hassle - I recently I had some fun getting Sun tar working with the puppet module face, and found that the discrepancies created issues - in the end I just supported gnu tar, but this puts a dependency now on the need for 'gtar' on the host before the tool will work. Another example - to get windows working we could either ship tar, or do something like I'm proposing. Again, using our own tool means there is much less special casing for platform and tar implementation. What do people think about this? Do you think there is a better way to get agnostic support for tar? All comments welcome ... If bundling is acceptable - how would you like to see it done? Today - I'm considering moving it into the Puppet:: namespace and effectively forking it like we have done for other tools. Since minitar hasn't changed for 4 years (last release was 2008) I don't anticipate a lot of frequent changes (perhaps ongoing Ruby version support?). I've created a ticket to track this btw and made some notes on why I'm thinking this way: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15841 ken. -- 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.
