Installing multiple versions of a ZIP archive

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Hi,

lets say I have a small class that simply extracts a given ZIP archive into a destination directory, using a version string passed in as class parameter to identify both the archive and the destination:

class foo ($version = undef) {
    ...
}

If the archive is extracted manually, I can easily extract multiple different versions next to each other, so that I get (for example):

/opt/foo/1/
/opt/foo/2/
...
/opt/foo/n/

However, in Puppet, I can't do this for the same node:

class {'foo': version => '1'}
class {'foo': version => '2'}
class {'foo': version => '3'}

to get multple versions extracted.

I currently achieve this by doing multiple sequential Puppet runs with different values for $version.

There must be a better way to do this. I thought about passing in the versions as an array, but Puppet has no loops. Do I really need to write a custom type and provider for this?

Thanks...

    Dirk

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[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am 02.01.2015 um 09:26 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:

There must be a better way to do this. I thought about passing in the versions as an array, but Puppet has no loops.

Found it. Defined types is the way to go.

Bye...