ghoneycutt / puppet-module-utils

Puppet module to manage arbitrary utilities

puppet-module-utils

This module manages arbitrary installation of utilities.

Takes no action if no packages are specified.

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Compatibility

Systems with package repositories that only need the name of the packages passed to the package resource. Meant to work with Puppet v3 with and without the future parser and Puppet v4 with Ruby versions 1.8.7, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, 2.1.0 and 2.3.1.

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Parameters

packages

Array of packages to install.

• Default: 'UNSET'

provider

String to denote name of provider.

• Default: undef

enable_hiera_array

Boolean to enable the use hiera_array to lookup variable packages

• Default: false

puppet-module-utils's Issues

Add package remove list

Hello,

I think it would be most useful to have an array of packages to be removed as well as a boolean for the order of install vs remove steps.

And, should a package be listed in both arrays, post an error.

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

Regards,

== k+ ==

Support for uninstalling packages

We have a need to enforce certain packages not be installed.

Can we expand utils to have a packages_absent parameter to enforce that certain packages are absent? Or parse through the packages parameter and split out package names that are prefixed with '-' or perhaps '!'.

Support system without a package manager

Some systems does not include a package repository, like Solaris 10.
Additional parameters needs to be added to the module to support mentioned systems.

Source of package and instruction files if neccessary to automate the installation.

documentation is incomplete

Need some docs.