[Mageia-dev] puppet and the urpmi config

Wed Jul 18 19:19:45 CEST 2012

* Guillaume Rousse (guillomovitch at gmail.com) wrote:
+> 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 :
+>> 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.
+
+Indeep for /etc/passwd, but in fact, on RedHat system this is not a
+problem since all system users have fixed uidNumber.
+
+The main difference is all ditributions have an /etc/passwd so puppet
+have a standard plugin for it, only Mageia (and others Mandriva base)
+have an urpmi.cfg.
+
+Yum for instance does not have this issue.
+
+>> 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).
+
+Puppet have a Yum plugin for instance.
+
+I don't have augeas on all servers we have (I have to support Mdv MES 5 to
+Mageia cauldron...).
+
+And finally what you suggest is more or less what I did. Except I did it
+for my own need, it has no options (yet).
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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