On Jun 14, 2012, at 1:24 AM, Brian Gupta wrote:I need to install postfix on a a debian system with puppet.
Unfortunately there are a lot of prompts. One way to deal with this
is, is:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Debian_Preseed_Patterns.Another way (apparently) is to give an answerfile in the package
resource declaration. (I have no idea how to do this)
e.g.:
echo postfix postfix/main_mailer_type select No configuration
debconf-set-selections
apt-get install -y postfix
However, I'd just like to deal with this stuff from within the package
resource declaration. Is there something simple I am missing?
I just want to install a single package install with noconfig, and
have puppet handle the rest.
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I don't have an issue with postfix on Ubuntu which I am sure is the Debian packages... (note that for postfix, I use what I describe as a 'one-shot' configuration setup which doesn't actually maintain the configuration files once they are dropped into place). I never have had an issue with interactive configuration.
# cat configure.pp
# postfix::configure class
#
# Last update 07/20/2011
#
# Craig White
#
# configures postfix
#
class postfix::configure {
file{"/etc/puppet/deployment_files/postfix-main.cf":
ensure => present,
owner => postfix,
group => postfix,
mode => 0664,
content => template("postfix/main.cf.erb"),
require => Class["postfix::install"],
}
exec{"Deploy postfix/main.cf from template":
command => "/bin/cp /etc/postfix/main.cf /etc/postfix/main.cf-backup; /bin/cat /etc/puppet/deployment_files/postfix-main.cf > /etc/postfix/main.cf; /bin/touch /etc/puppet/deployment_files/postfix-main.cf-deployed",
unless => "/bin/ls -l /etc/puppet/deployment_files/postfix-main.cf-deployed",
require => [ File["/etc/puppet/deployment_files/postfix-main.cf"], Exec["/etc/mailname"] ],
notify => Class["postfix::service"],
}
exec { "/etc/mailname":
command => '/bin/echo `/bin/hostname`".ttiltd.com" > /etc/mailname',
unless => '/bin/ls -l /etc/puppet/deployment_files/postfix-main.cf-deployed',
require => Class["postfix::install"],
notify => Class["postfix::service"],
}
}
# cat install.pp
# postfix::install class
#
# Last update 07/20/2011
#
# Craig White
#
# ensures postfix package is installed
#
class postfix::install {
package { ["postfix"]:
ensure => present,
}
package { ["mailutils"]:
ensure => present,
}
package { ["mailx"]:
ensure => absent,
}
}
# cat service.pp
# postfix::service class
#
# Last update 07/20/2011
#
# Craig White
#
# ensures postfix is running
#
class postfix::service {
service { "postfix" :
ensure => running,
hasstatus => true,
hasrestart => true,
enable => true,
require => Class["postfix::configure"],
}
}
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