[Mageia-dev] puppet and the urpmi config

Wed Jul 18 17:55:27 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 18/07/12 16:39 did gyre and gimble:
+> * Guillaume Rousse (guillomovitch at gmail.com) wrote:
+>> Le 18/07/2012 14:29, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+>>> Ideas and patches welcome.
+>> You shouldn't overwrite any file managed locally, but interact with it  
+>> using expected interface. For urpmi, it just requires to check if the  
+>> media you are interested in is already present, and otherwise call  
+>> urpmi.addmedia for adding it. I don't have any puppet-ready solution for  
+>> it, but I don't think that's really difficult to reproduce.
+> 
+> A real solution would be urpmi make a real difference between
+> configuration and state data.
+> At time it write things in both /etc/urpmi and /var/lib/urpmi, even
+> there is no change real change in urpmi.cfg.
+> 
+> Such plugin for puppet must be written in ruby, I haven't plan to learn
+> ruby right now.
+> 
+> I will also argue the media name is not enough to ensure the urpmi
+> config use the right distro on the server I want.
+
+Would making urpmi support a /etc/urpmi/urpmi.conf.d/ folder also help here?
+
+Col
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