brew and macosx and puppet

[kegstand]

any hints on installing a package through the 'brew' provider on macosx?

code:

        exec { "brew_install_nginx":
            command => "/usr/local/bin/brew install nginx",
            creates => "/usr/local/sbin/nginx",
            path=> "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin",
            user => "push",
        }

"brew install nginx" works from the command line, outside of puppet

output:

$ ls /usr/local/sbin/nginx
ls: /usr/local/sbin/nginx: No such file or directory
$ /opt/bin/contact_puppet_server.sh
info: Retrieving plugin
info: Caching catalog for dev.push.am
info: Applying configuration version '1345186944'
err: /Stage[main]/Nginx::Install/Exec[brew_install_nginx]/returns: change from notrun to 0 failed: /usr/local/bin/brew install nginx returned 1 instead of one of [0] at /etc/puppet/modules/nginx/manifests/install.pp:23

[Daniele Sluijters]

Hello,

The problem is that you're running 'brew install nginx' as root, since Puppet runs as root.

If you run that command as root on a console it will tell you:

9:35:11 ro...@chell.portal.daenney.net ~ brew install nginx

Cowardly refusing to `sudo brew install'

And it exists with an exitcode of:

9:35:14 ro...@chell.portal.daenney.net ~ echo $?                                                                               1 ↵

1

So, unless you can run that command as the actual user that owns the brew installation this just won't work.

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Daniele Sluijters

[kegstand]

I figured out how to get puppet to install nginx through the puppet provider without running it as root.

someone on IRC suggested I add "logoutput => on_failure"

        exec { "brew_install_nginx":
            command => "/usr/local/bin/brew install nginx",
            creates => "/usr/local/sbin/nginx",

            logoutput => on_failure,
            path=> "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/Library/Aliases",
            user => "push",
        }

which gave me lots of handy error output.

thanks IRC.

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