[Mageia-dev] puppet and the urpmi config

Wed Jul 18 18:34:08 CEST 2012

Le 18/07/2012 17:39, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+> * 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.
+Right, but that's outside the scope of your problem. And urpmi.cfg is 
+the only example of such a scenario. Just imagine managing /etc/passwd, 
+for instance.
+
+> Such plugin for puppet must be written in ruby, I haven't plan to learn
+> ruby right now.
+You don't need any plugin to run a grep command, and take a decision 
+based on its output status. And if there is some code to write, that 
+would rather be an augeas lense to avoid the need of using grep (I've no 
+clue about the difficulty, tough).
+
+> I will also argue the media name is not enough to ensure the urpmi
+> config use the right distro on the server I want.
+Indeed. You need to grep for more than the media name, then.
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #321:
+
+Scheduled global CPU outage
+