Perhaps I need to elaborate further. I wish to build this wrapper and make a provider for puppet that will deal with pkg management for anything Solaris 10 and below in the same manner (roughly at first) as apt-get or yum.
Regards - Geoff On Tuesday, 20 November 2012 13:43:49 UTC+11, Geoff Hargreaves wrote: > > Hi Folks. > > I may be in the wrong forum here but here goes. > > I have seen entries on this topic over the web extolling the virtues of > OpenCSW and Blastwave as yum and apt-get equivalents for Solaris. The > problem I run into is the dependency tree for these products. I have been > looking at OpenCSW and see it requires many packages from OpenCSW mirrors > to run up pkgutil. In a largish environment with fairly strict policies on > using pre-compiled binaries from external sources, I end up with SMC / CSW > / SUNW / <our internal pkgs> in the mix and some unhappy legal / security > staff. > > The idea I would like to put forward is to write a wrapper for > pkgadd/pkgrm/pkginfo/etc.. in Ruby. Keeping it as separate from puppet as > yum and apt-get to keep the model standard with a repo residing on a web > server with a catalog. My reason for Ruby is that the solaris host that is > a puppet client will already have Ruby installed so I have no extra guff to > install on my closely guarded clients. > > At this stage it is just something I was thinking about this morning. I > would like to know if there is any interest in here for such a thing ? Am I > insane ? Has it already been done ? > > Regards - Geoff > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-dev/-/TOhCr70B4v0J. 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.
