[Puppet Users] windows : exec ressources and creates paramater

Hi Bernard!
The creates attribute is a conditional for the exec run.
From http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#exec :
creates A file to look for before running the command. The command will
only run if the file *doesn’t exist.*
*
*
So it's actually looking for that file, and running the command you
specified only if it can't find it. It's assumed that your command will
create that file and the exec won't run more than once.

Hope it's clearer now, regards!
Pablo

Hi Bernard,
You should checkout the executable package provider in Puppet 3. See
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/cKQ8DAV6nlI/q_hkK2w8MNIJ

One gotcha to be aware of is that the name of the package in your
manifest must match the name displayed in Add/Remove Programs, e.g.
'Java(TM) 6 Update 18'

Josh

Ok, my english is not so good, I miss undesrstood the documentation :
"creates
A file that this command creates."

I thought it was puppet which creates the file and not my command.

Thanks for your help.



Cordialement,

Bernard Granier
CE Plateforme Système
bernard.granier@morpho.com
01 58 11 32 51

From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Pablo Wright
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 6:36 PM
To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] windows : exec ressources and creates paramater

Hi Bernard!
The creates attribute is a conditional for the exec run.
From http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#exec :
creates
A file to look for before running the command. The command will only run if the file doesn't exist.

So it's actually looking for that file, and running the command you specified only if it can't find it. It's assumed that your command will create that file and the exec won't run more than once.

Hope it's clearer now, regards!
Pablo


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:49 PM, GRANIER Bernard (MORPHO) wrote:
I thought that creates attribute of exec resource creates a file.

On windows, I have the following init.pp, jdk is correctly installed but myfile2.txt is not created, did I miss something ?


class install_java_win {

file {'jdk-6u18-windows-i586.exe':
path=> "$c:/tmp/jdk-6u18-windows-i586.exe",
ensure=> present,
mode=> 0777,
source => "puppet://${server}/modules/install_java_win/jdk-6u18-windows-i586.exe",
}
exec {'java':
creates => "c:/tmp/myfile2.txt",
cwd => c:/tmp",
path => "c:/tmp;${::path}",
logoutput => true,
command => 'cmd /c jdk-6u18-windows-i586.exe /s INSTALLDIR=c:\\tools\\jdk1.6.0_18 /INSTALLDIRJAVADB=c:\\tools\\jdk1.6.0_18 /INSTALLDIRPUBJRE=c:\\tools\\jdk1.6.0_18',
require => [ File['jdk-6u18-windows-i586.exe'] ],
}

}



Cordialement,

Bernard Granier
CE Plateforme Système
bernard.granier@morpho.com
01 58 11 32 51


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