[Mageia-dev] puppet and the urpmi config

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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