On Mar 9, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Mathew Binkley wrote:
> Hi everyone. I am trying to manage several different packages using
> Puppet. For the sake of maintainability, each package is installed in
> its own separate puppet directory. Each package would have a separate
> install_package.pp script and corresponding folder in /etc/puppet/
> files on the server:
>
> /etc/puppet/files/foo/
> etc/
> root/
> usr/local
>
> /etc/puppet/files/bar/
> etc/
> var/lib
>
> To avoid micromanaging, I would like to simply copy over the contents
> of each folder to / on the client. While each package has directories
> in common (/etc for example), all of the files in each package are
> orthogonal and not shared between packages. For example, package foo
> will be the only package that will ever install /etc/foo.conf.
> Package bar will never manage it.
>
Can't you split it into stuff that changes and stuff that doesn't, and then put
the stuff that doesn't change into a package. Then put what ever changes into
sub directories?
If that doesn't work, you could copy and extract a tar file with something like
this:
#Don't use /tmp because some distro's nuke that at startup.
#/var/puppet_tmp/ won't exist. Make sure you create it.
file { "/var/puppet_tmp/test.tar.gz":
owner => "root",
group => "root",
mode => 750,
source => "puppet:///module_name/test.tar.gz",
require => File["/var/puppet_tmp"]
}
exec { "/bin/tar -xvz /var/puppet_tmp/test.tar.gz":
cwd => "/",
subscribe => File["/var/puppet_tmp/test.tar.gz"],
require => File["/var/puppet_tmp/test.tar.gz"]
}
If you do that a lot, wrapping it in a define shouldn't be too hard.
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