Arch Linux

shrimphead

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Registered: 2008-10-13

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Has anyone successfully 'puppetized' an Arch Linux box

Hi All

I'm quite a big fan of puppet(http://projects.reductivelabs.com/), we use it at work extensively to manage our Redhat servers, and I'm experimenting with writing puppet scripts for my Arch desktop at home.

I notice that facter has support for determining if the OS it is running on is Arch, but there seems to be no default package provider for pacman. I've found an attempt at one here(http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1853) which I have included in my puppet distribution.

Just wanted to know if anyone else here has used Puppet on Arch and if so how did you go about it. Does it work ok, or does the rolling release nature of arch make it a bit pointless?

cheers

Matt

skottish

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Re: Has anyone successfully 'puppetized' an Arch Linux box

Welcome to the forums shrimphead.

There is a package in AUR. If you don't know AUR yet, just search for it in the wiki:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15496

shrimphead

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Registered: 2008-10-13

Posts: 9

Re: Has anyone successfully 'puppetized' an Arch Linux box

hey Skottish, thanks for the reply I'm familiar with the packages in AUR already, I have them installed on a home server that is running as puppetmaster to a bunch of Ubuntu clients.

What I guess I really want to know is if anyone has much experience they're willing to share on how to go about writing puppet recipes for Arch, especially bearing in mind that the package provider (the backend that puppet uses to automagically install stuff that you specify) doesn't have pacman support officially yet.