win_repo: Providing dynamic data at install time

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Hi,

while migrating stuff from Puppet, I came accross one Puppet class that has a package definition like below:

  package { 'The Package':
    alias           => 'the_pkg',
    ensure       => present,
    source       => $the_pkg_win,
    install_options => [
      '/qn',
      {
        'PROPERTY1'  => "${value1}",
        'PROPERTY2'  => "${value2}",
      }
      ],
  }

How can I pass arbitrary values to installer properties when using win_repo?

Thanks...

    Dirk

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[Loren Gordon]

Currently, I don't think there is support for that, see [0]. The released versions of salt do not support rendering in winrepo sls files. However, some initial support has been added to the develop branch, see [1], for master-side rendering (via `winrepo.genrepo`), which can then be pushed to the minion (via `pkg.refresh_db`). That won't support dynamic properties that should be determined at install time on a per-minion basis, but it's better than nothing.

[0] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/6859
[1] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/22675

-Loren