Install gem packages behind a proxy

[seph]

Hi all. My particular environment doesn't allow most of the machines to
make direct external connections, so I send a lot of things through
proxies. And now, I'm trying to figure out how to use puppet to install
gems, via proxy.

The gem command itself has a command line option, or honors the
http_proxy environmental variable. But I don't see how to use either of
those without patching the gem provider. Has anyone solved this?

I'm running on ubuntu hardy, with puppet 0.25.1.

seph

[James Turnbull]

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John Ferlito has a patch for this - inline:

diff -ur puppet-0.25.0/lib/puppet/provider/package/gem.rb
puppet.net/lib/puppet/provider/package/gem.rb
- --- puppet-0.25.0/lib/puppet/provider/package/gem.rb 2009-09-04
22:54:19.000000000 +0000
+++ puppet.net/lib/puppet/provider/package/gem.rb 2009-11-24
12:52:44.000000000 +0000
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@
# Always include dependencies
command << "--include-dependencies"

+ if options = resource[:options]
+ command += options.split(/\s+/)
+ end
+
if source = resource[:source]
begin
uri = URI.parse(source)
@@ -99,6 +103,11 @@
command << resource[:name]
end

+ if build = resource[:build]
+ command << "--"
+ command += build.split(/\s+/)
+ end
+
output = execute(command)
# Apparently some stupid gem versions don't exit non-0 on
failure
if output.include?("ERROR")
diff -ur puppet-0.25.0/lib/puppet/type/package.rb
puppet.net/lib/puppet/type/package.rb
- --- puppet-0.25.0/lib/puppet/type/package.rb 2009-09-04
22:54:19.000000000 +0000
+++ puppet.net/lib/puppet/type/package.rb 2009-11-24
12:56:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -207,6 +207,12 @@
isnamevar
end

+ newparam(:options) do
+ desc "Options for the gem command"
+ end
+ newparam(:build) do
+ desc "Build options for the gem"
+ end
newparam(:source) do
desc "Where to find the actual package. This must be a
local file
(or on a network file system) or a URL that your
specific

Regards

James Turnbull

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[seph]

James Turnbull <ja...@lovedthanlost.net> writes:

> seph wrote:
>> Hi all. My particular environment doesn't allow most of the machines to
>> make direct external connections, so I send a lot of things through
>> proxies. And now, I'm trying to figure out how to use puppet to install
>> gems, via proxy.
>

> John Ferlito has a patch for this - inline:

Yeah, I really don't want to patch puppet. (It's harder for me to
maintain local patches for future upgrades). Is this something that will
make it upstream?

My current solution is to write out a ~root/.gemrc, not that nice but
fits in my framework.

seph

[Peter Meier]

> Yeah, I really don't want to patch puppet. (It's harder for me to
> maintain local patches for future upgrades). Is this something that will
> make it upstream?

well if a ticket is opened about the issue, the patch is sent to the
-dev list and get accepted it will make it upstream. but somebody has
to do that process.

cheers pete