Issue #17951 has been updated by Josh Cooper. Status changed from Unreviewed to Needs More Information
Hi Andrew, the windows package provider will consider the resource to be insync if the package with that name is installed. So for example, if your package name doesn't contain a version string, e.g. VMware Tools, it wil not recognize that the package needs updating. To ensure that your specific MSI is installed, you can specify the MSI PackageCode as the name of the package. See <http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11868#note-11> for more details about this. Let me know if that resolves the issues you are seeing. ---------------------------------------- Bug #17951: Windows package provider does not re-run installation when subscription updates https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/17951#change-78418 Author: Andrew Dunkman Status: Needs More Information Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: windows Target version: Affected Puppet version: 3.0.1 Keywords: windows msi Branch: I have a directory of MSIs that are copied to nodes and run to install products; newer versions of MSIs install cleanly over older versions. What I would like to do is install the product either 1. when the product is not yet installed or 2. when the source file changes. The first point is easy with the windows package provider, the second point seems impossible using the windows package provider. The provider seems to ignore its subscriptions. file { 'c:/packages/myinstaller.msi': ensure => 'file', mode => '1777', owner => 'administrator', group => 'Administrators', source => 'puppet:///...', notify => Package['My Product'], } package { 'My Product': ensure => installed, source => 'c:\\packages\\myinstaller.msi', } -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
