pkgsrc provider for Package?

[Jesse Reynolds]

Hello

I'm wondering if anyone has looked into adding pkgsrc package
management as a provider for Package?

We use Joyent accelerators (zones on OpenSolaris) for our many of our
production services and about a year ago Joyent switched from
Blastwave to pkgsrc for userland packages.

pkgsrc catalog - http://pkgsrc.se/
pkgsrc guide - http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/
joyent pkgsrc info - http://wiki.joyent.com/accelerators:kb:pkgsrc

I had planned on using puppet to manage our joyent virtual boxes and
our local developer virtual machines including installation of ruby,
rails, apache, etc etc out of pkgsrc but seems this might be non
trivial. Any advice appreciated.

Thanks
Jesse

[James Turnbull]

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Jesse Reynolds wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has looked into adding pkgsrc package
> management as a provider for Package?

Not as far as I am aware.

> I had planned on using puppet to manage our joyent virtual boxes and
> our local developer virtual machines including installation of ruby,
> rails, apache, etc etc out of pkgsrc but seems this might be non
> trivial. Any advice appreciated.

Well I'd start with logging a ticket. pkgsrc is a NetBSD thing
right? Does it work like ports? Is there a pkgsrc package for Puppet?

Regards

James

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[Jesse Reynolds]

2009/1/28 James Turnbull <ja...@lovedthanlost.net>

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Jesse Reynolds wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has looked into adding pkgsrc package
> management as a provider for Package?

Not as far as I am aware.

> I had planned on using puppet to manage our joyent virtual boxes and
> our local developer virtual machines including installation of ruby,
> rails, apache, etc etc out of pkgsrc but seems this might be non
> trivial. Any advice appreciated.

Well I'd start with logging a ticket.  pkgsrc is a NetBSD thing
right?  Does it work like ports?  Is there a pkgsrc package for Puppet?

It works similarly to ports, yes. It can build from scratch like ports, or it can install from a pre-built package repository. 

Yes there is package for Puppet in pkgsrc :-)

 OK I'll log a ticket, thanks. 

[James Turnbull]

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Jesse Reynolds wrote:
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>

> 2009/1/28 James Turnbull <ja...@lovedthanlost.net
> <mailto:ja...@lovedthanlost.net>>

So I just looked quickly at the doco for pkgsrc and the existing
freebsd, openbsd and ports support in Puppet and it looks to me like
it'll work fine. It's currently confined to only work on OpenBSd and
FreeBSD but it'd be an easy fix to update that and if there are minor
bugs fix those.

The files you want to look at are:

lib/puppet/provider/package/openbsd.rb
lib/puppet/provider/package/freebsd.rb
lib/puppet/provider/package/ports.rb

Cheers

James Turnbull

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[Rob Chanter]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:11 PM, James Turnbull <ja...@lovedthanlost.net> wrote:
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> So I just looked quickly at the doco for pkgsrc and the existing
> freebsd, openbsd and ports support in Puppet and it looks to me like
> it'll work fine. It's currently confined to only work on OpenBSd and
> FreeBSD but it'd be an easy fix to update that and if there are minor
> bugs fix those.

Pkgsrc also works on Red Hat. We use it here for a few things. The
other thing that occurs to me is that with pkgsrc on non-NetBSD
systems, you end up with a mixed package system where core OS packages
are provided by RPM (or SVR4 pkgadd/pkgrm or whatever) and the
extended packages are managed using the pkgsrc toolset. There might
also be namespace clashes between the two package systems, since they
use different package databases.

Can puppet easily enough refer a package resource to an alternative provider?

cheers
rob

[James Turnbull]

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Rob Chanter wrote:
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> Can puppet easily enough refer a package resource to an alternative
provider?
>

package { blah:
ensure => latest,
provider => ports
}

The provider attribute allows you to specify which provider to use for
certain functions.

Regards

James Turnbull

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