Install bin file through puppet

[Steve]

puppet newbie trying to install bin file through puppet. How would I
go about it?



class java {

package {"java_package":
provider => "bin", <--this did not work
# source => "puppet:///application/jdk-6u23-linux-x64-rpm.bin",
source => "http://10.31.31.1/jdk-6u23-linux-x64-rpm.bin",
ensure => installed
}
}

[Ashley Penney]

Aren't these normally self-contained archives with a script?  You would need to write an exec{} statement that wget's the .bin, runs it with whatever arguments are required for installing, and then cleans up the archive afterwards.  If you add in a "creates =>" to the location of the install you can ensure this only occurs once.

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[Ken Barber]

I'd unpack the binary RPM, put it in a yum repo somewhere and install
it with package {}.

ken.