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Install gem packages behind a proxy

2010-01-07T22:36:09Z

Hi all. My particular environment doesn't allow most of the machines to
make direct external connections, so I send a lot of things through
proxies. And now, I'm trying to figure out how to use puppet to install
gems, via proxy.
The gem command itself has a command line option, or honors the
http_proxy environmental variable. But I don't see how to use either of

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet packaging in Debian

2010-01-07T21:04:14Z

Quoting Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com>:
I've gotten started on this and hit a few problems:
1. git-buildpackage bailed when it wanted someone elses secret key. I
did a 'debchange -i' and added myself, generated keys and ran it
again. Had to tell git-buildpackage to ignore the fact that I'd
changed things and not committed them. This seems a bit odd.

Re: [Puppet Users] Reloading puppet client after nss change

2010-01-06T17:52:44Z

Check this out:
[link]
Silviu

Re: [Puppet Users] strange problem with RHEL 4 and 0.25.2

2010-01-07T13:35:48Z

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Ricky has identified the issue and raised a ticket:
[link]
Regards
James Turnbull
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Author of:
* Pro Linux System Administration ([link])
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Re: [Puppet Users] strange problem with RHEL 4 and 0.25.2

2010-01-07T05:08:29Z

For the record I am getting this too. Mucked around with the Package { provider = yum } stuff in site.pp but no luck yet.

Re: [Puppet Users] strange problem with RHEL 4 and 0.25.2

2010-01-07T04:15:21Z

It comes in 2 parts
— first part —
Could not autoload rpm: undefined method `readpartial' for
Could not autoload
"/usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet /provider/package/yum.rb": Could not find
parent provider rpm of yum
Could not autoload
"/usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet /provider/package/up2date.rb": Could not

Re: [Puppet Users] strange problem with RHEL 4 and 0.25.2

2010-01-07T03:59:03Z

Hi,
Can you run it with --trace and post the output.
thanks,
Dan

strange problem with RHEL 4 and 0.25.2

2010-01-07T03:56:17Z

Hey All,
I've just updated one of my servers from 0.24.8 (I know, slack that I'm that far behind) to 0.25.2 though have found that when trying to run puppet I get the following errors:
Could not autoload rpm: undefined method `readpartial' for #<IO:0xb7d6e27c>
Could not autoload "/usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/puppet /provider/package/yum.rb": Could not find parent provider rpm of yum

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet packaging in Debian

2010-01-07T02:56:53Z

Hi Steve.
Normally we'd have the 0.25.2 package done by now, but two of us who
work here are really flat out with work things at the moment, and so
we've slipped. I'm planning to email the other maintainers tonight to
see if anyone has spare cycles to help out.
Are you familiar with git-buildpackage ? You can always use it to

puppet packaging in Debian

2010-01-07T02:16:48Z

Hi there
I am about to embark on a project to implement puppet for server management
and I'm noticing that the version currently in Debian testing is 0.25.1-3
while the latest stable version is 0.25.2
I'm not seeing any indication on the Debian project page about 0.25.2 so I
thought I'd check here to see if anyone knew if 0.25.2 is going to be

San Francisco Puppet Training

2010-01-06T18:43:39Z

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Re: [Puppet Users] Weird /etc/hosts issue I'm working on

2010-01-06T18:18:44Z

That sounds about right, I just didn't know if I could use that variable in
a function. I'll just go away and play rather than post more!

Re: [Puppet Users] Weird /etc/hosts issue I'm working on

2010-01-06T18:17:24Z

right
yes, this variable should represent the desired state of ipaddress.
I don't follow what you mean here. The function wouldn't use the exported
resource, it would just use $ip. (unless there is something I am not
understanding)

Re: [Puppet Users] Weird /etc/hosts issue I'm working on

2010-01-06T18:09:51Z

My only concern about this is that functions evaluate on the server, right?
The only place I change ip's is in a variable ($ip) in nodes.pp for each
node. I do export a host{} entry for each box to storeconfig but I don't
know if I can rely on that being updated in time for the function to look.

Re: [Puppet Users] Weird /etc/hosts issue I'm working on

2010-01-06T18:00:16Z

I am sure you have used at least 2 functions, template and include :)