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Wilshire
Asked: 2014-10-02 13:15:06 +0800 CST

Having puppet use yum --installroot for certain nodes

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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!

puppet

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  1. Best Answer

    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=' ],
}
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