Set environment variable that is visible to package installation

[Kevin Lange]

We have RPMs which requires an environment variable to be set prior to installation (contains conf information).  What is the best way to do this?  I'd like to avoid setting this environment var in each systems' profile.  It would be nice to have an option to do this within the package type, but I think that's not very likely.

[Nikola Petrov]

You can get the environment variable from puppet.conf or if it is
another variable, you can use facter. As long as you are controlling
your packages you can check those after that.

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Nikola

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[Michael Dodwell]

Another method is to use exec {} instead of package {} to install the rpm. This will enable you to set environment => 'BATCH=myval', path => ['/bin', '/usr/bin'] etc

use unless to check if the package is installed so it doesn't try to install it multiple times.