Sourcing a shell script for other states (installing nvm)

[Weydson Lima]

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to properly install nvm (Node Version Manager, https://github.com/creationix/nvm) and have it available for other states. Installing nvm is trivial but requires to source a bash script to make the Node.js executable file available in the PATH. I have other states that require Node.js and currently the only way for these states to run successfully is to log out and back in into the shell session, therefore causing them to fail on the first runs.

I'm using a masterless configuration on Vagrant.

Thank you,
Weydson

[Daniel Wallace]

You will need to use `cmd.shell` or pass `python_shell: True` to the cmd module (this is always passed for the cmd.run state, so no need to do anything there)  But then you need to add the sourcing to the bashrc or /etc/profile for the user that is going to be running the nvm commands.

Alternatively you could set the options inside the salt environment using the setenv state, but otherwise, this feature request sounds like what you want.

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/41719

And it doesn't exist yet.

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