We created a definition in our "apt" module called preseed_package and
then we call
apt::preseed_package { <package_name>:
ensure => present,
}
You can then create a preseed file for that package and have puppet
put it on the host.
>From our "apt" module:
define preseed_package ( $ensure ) {
file { "/var/local/preseed":
ensure => directory,
}
file { "/var/local/preseed/$name.preseed":
source => "puppet:///apt/preseed/$name.preseed",
mode => 600,
backup => false,
}
package { "$name":
ensure => $ensure,
responsefile => "/var/local/preseed/$name.preseed",
require => File["/var/local/preseed/$name.preseed"],
}
}
Paul
On Aug 10, 5:20 am, Craig Box <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been trying to use Puppet to install the Zabbix server, which uses
> dbconfig-common to set up its database.
>
> If you don't do anything more than package { "zabbix-server-mysql": ensure
> => installed }, then you end up with errors that look much like this
> (snipped for brevity) :
>
> err: //zabbix::server/Package[zabbix-server-mysql]/ensure: change from
> purged to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o
> DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install zabbix-server-mysql' returned 100:
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
>
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> .: 3: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/config.mysql
> zabbix-server-mysql failed to preconfigure, with exit status 2
> Fetched 5659kB in 0s (9017kB/s)
>
> Setting up zabbix-server-mysql (1:1.8.1-1ubuntu1) ...
> dbconfig-common: writing config to
> /etc/dbconfig-common/zabbix-server-mysql.conf
>
> Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/zabbix-server-mysql.conf with new
> version
>
> Creating config file /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf with new version
> ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2).
> unable to connect to mysql server.
> error encountered creating user:
> ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
> dbconfig-common: zabbix-server-mysql configure: aborted.
> dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
> dpkg: error processing zabbix-server-mysql (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> zabbix-server-mysql
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> In short, it's expecting that you have answered questions about its MySQL
> root password.
>
> If you install the package manually, the first question you are asked is
> whether or not you want to use dbconfig-common, and a warning that if you
> already have a database set up, you don't want to use it. It seem to
> influence the value for the dbconfig-install key. Therefore, it stands to
> reason that if I preseed this key:
>
> zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-server-mysql/dbconfig-install boolean false
>
> then I should get what I want. However, I don't - still prompted, still
> fails to install silently, etc.
>
> As this question probably comes up a lot for people installing software
> through Puppet, has anyone come up with a satisfactory solution to tell
> debconf/dbconfig-common to just get out of the way entirely?
>
> Craig
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