Puppet

Sometimes you need to use backported packages on debian-like system (we could easily imagine use cases for other platforms). In work/production environments, it’s quite rare to have directly access to the Internet for security reasons. So “package” type should accept a “source” located on the puppet master filebucket, whereas it only accepts local packages for the moment.

Said differently, I’d like to turn this kind of awful recipe :

class apache2-passenger {
  package {“libapache2-mod-passenger”:


ensure => installed,
provider => dpkg,
source => "/tmp/mod-passenger.deb"
require => File[tmp-passenger]


  }
  file {“tmp-passenger”:

name => "/tmp/mod-passenger.deb",
owner => root,
group => root,
source => "puppet:///files/redmine/libapache2-mod-passenger_2.2.11debian-1~bpo50+1_i386.deb"


  }
}

Into something like this :

class apache2-passenger {
  package {“libapache2-mod-passenger”:


ensure => installed,
provider => dpkg,
source => "puppet:///files/passenger/libapache2-mod-passenger_2.2.11debian-1~bpo50+1_i386.deb"


  }
}

Let me know your opinion about that. Thanks!