plugin sync and different platforms

[James A. Peltier]

Hi All,

I'm trying to write some plugins that should only be sync'd if they're for a specific platform. For example, in our environment we're supporting Solaris, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS and Mac OS X. We've developed some OS X plugins and some Solaris plugins but we've noticed that our Linux hosts have imported our OS X plugins and now throw errors each time the agent is started

Aug 20 17:30:53 hostname puppet-agent[29934]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/type/sysctl.rb]/ensure) defined content as '{md5}0ba25754548630344738a7959fea2bb8'
Aug 20 17:30:53 hostname puppet-agent[29934]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/provider/x_policy]/ensure) created
Aug 20 17:30:53 hostname puppet-agent[29934]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/provider/x_policy/x_mcx.rb]/ensure) defined content as '{md5}5ea505d684d7c4b401950927e1680d04'
Aug 20 17:30:53 hostname puppet-agent[29934]: Could not load downloaded file /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/mac_console_users.rb: no such file to load -- osx/cocoa
Aug 20 17:30:53 hostname puppet-agent[29934]: Could not load fact file /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/mac_console_users.rb: no such file to load -- osx/cocoa

Am I missing something? Is there a way to stop this from happening?

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[Jeff McCune]

On Monday, August 20, 2012, James A. Peltier wrote:

Hi All,

I'm trying to write some plugins that should only be sync'd if they're for a specific platform.  For example, in our environment we're supporting Solaris, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS and Mac OS X.  We've developed some OS X plugins and some Solaris plugins but we've noticed that our Linux hosts have imported our OS X plugins and now throw errors each time the agent is started

Plugins are always synced, regardless of platform.  What types of plugins are you developing?

The best way to deal with this is to deactivate the provider or fact on systems that don't support the behavior.

-Jeff

[James A. Peltier]

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We've developed a set of plugins for managing Macs entirely via puppet.  The providers are available here https://github.com/dayglojesus/x_types  We're also making extensive use of already available modules.

How do I go about deactivating providers and facts specific to platforms?

[James A. Peltier]

Never mind.  I suspect that you're referring to the confine :operatingsystem => :darwin or the likes

[Jeff McCune]

Yes, the confine system should work well for this situation.

-Jeff