I tend to create a directory with a minimal class /etc/puppet/deployfiles
and then another class for custom apt stuff and I have a file in
modules/apt/files where cron does a date thingy (/bin/date >
/etc/puppet/modules/apt/files/apt_update_time) and then I have this module
watch for a change which notifies an Exec in my apt module to trigger an
apt-get update. It's convoluted but it works. Similarly I have an
apt_upgrade_time file too but I don't have a cron job updating that one - I
just run the date command manually to get machines to perform the apt-get
upgrade but I do have machines run apt-get update daily triggered by the
updated file from cron.
On Monday, December 15, 2014 2:27:24 PM UTC-7, Vince Skahan wrote:
>
> In trying to spin up on puppet in a Vagrant environment, one of the things
> I have to do to my VM is 'apt-get update' at least once to catch the base
> box's understanding of what packages are where up to current. That takes a
> long enough time that I'd like to do it just once, or very rarely rather
> than every time I run 'vagrant provision'
>
> Right now, my toplevel manifest does the update once before trying to
> install anything.
>
> exec { "run apt-get update":
> path => '/usr/bin',
> command => 'apt-get update',
> }
>
> # install and configure nginx
> class {'nginx': }
>
>
>
> Ansible has a nice feature where you can specify how long you want the
> cache valid for, and it skips doing everything if the cache isn't that old
> (yet)
>
> - name: update apt cache
> apt: update_cache=yes cache_valid_time=84600
>
>
> Is there something similar for Puppet, or can somebody suggest a
> reasonable workaround ?
>
>
>
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