and then, indeed, maybe the provider could take a helper hint about how to go about detecting the presence of a package, kind of like Service takes hints about how to detect a service is running or not...
Then maybe: detect_with_file => "C:\\Program Files\\Splunk\\bin\\splunk.exe" Thanks, Mohamed. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the documentation about package providers should include > something about this... > Right now a provider has these features: > > holdable install_options installable purgeable uninstallable > upgradeable versionable > > Maybe something like: detectable > > Meaning the provider can effectively detect whether the package is > installed or not, as opposed to "can remember if it did install it or > not". > > Thanks a lot, > Mohamed. > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Jacob Helwig <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2011-11-22 07:10 , Mohamed Lrhazi wrote: >>> I noticed that is if I uninstall an MSI that was installed by Puppet, >>> Puppet does not notice. >>> >>> Looking at the source I see it might be checking for a state file to >>> know whether a package is installed or not: >>> C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\puppet\var\db\package\msi\SplunkForwarder.yml >>> >>> So one has to rememebr to delete that too.... Is this design not a problem? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mohamed. >>> >> >> It's certainly a limitation, and not ideal. This is currently how the >> appdmg provider behaves on OS X, so it's not entirely unexpected >> behavior (for people that are used to how Puppet works on systems >> without centralized package management systems). >> >> An alternative would be to create a parameter along the lines of exec's >> 'creates' where you would need to specify a file that would only exist >> iff the 'package' had been successfully installed. >> >> When we were investigating things initially I believe that the reason we >> had to rule out things like checking the registry was that there were >> too many ways for an installer to misbehave that would break any of the >> detection that we would need to do. >> >> I don't know whether or not a 'creates' parameter would end up being >> more problematic or not, but I certainly welcome discussion from people >> who are actually doing real systems management using Puppet on Windows. >> >> -- >> Jacob Helwig >> http://about.me/jhelwig >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" 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-users?hl=en.
