Having puppet use yum --installroot for certain nodes

Question

I have a case where we are throwing together diskless node images that get thrown out to nodes via PXE and then mounted via a ramdisk. To build these previously we have just installed packages with yum --installroot= install .

I was wondering though if I were able to have puppet instead of doing a regular yum -y install that for some node types would instead follow this pattern and do yum --installroot= install .

Cheers!

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '14 at 21:29

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This should be doable with install_options (which, for the yum provider, requires Puppet 3.6 or newer):

package { 'somepackage':
  ensure          => present,
  install_options => [ '--installroot=' ],
}

answered Oct 01 '14 at 21:29

Shane Madden

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That's much better than the alternative of writing a new provider type and calling it conditionally. – Aaron Copley Oct 01 '14 at 21:30
Thanks for the answer and even in proper puppet community format! – Wilshire Oct 02 '14 at 20:07

Having puppet use yum --installroot for certain nodes

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