chrislea

Puppet module for Chris Lea packages for Ubuntu, e.g. node.js and zeromq.

Inspired by niallo.

Testing:

Either:

• make test to perform a simple smoke test; or
• make vm to create the Vagrant virtual machine and install Node.js.

I use the latter for my own testing.

Usage:

• apt-get update if you have a fresh Ubuntu install, just in case
• cd /etc/puppet/modules
• git clone git://github.com/garthk/puppet-chrislea
• ln -s puppet-chrislea chris
• Use chris::lea::nodejs and other classes as below
• Use chris::lea::repo to define your own classes as below

Installing Node.js:

In your node definition, or whichever class it's including:

• include chris::lea::nodejs

So far, I've only defined these two classes:

• chris::lea::nodejs
• chris::lea::zeromq

Installing Other Packages:

To add a package from a repository for which I haven't made a class:

• Use chris::lea::repo to add the repositories
• Declare your package
• Use the right $name between the curly bracket and the colon: this will be the argument to apt-get install
• require the repositories you just added

Example:

class zeromq_development {
  chris::lea::repo { 'libpgm': }
  chris::lea::repo { 'zeromq': }
  package { 'libzmq-dev':
    ensure  => installed,
    require => [
      Chris::Lea::Repo['libpgm'],
      Chris::Lea::Repo['zeromq'],
    ],
  }
}

To find out which repositories you need:

• Visit the archive page, e.g. zeromq
• Click "Technical details about this PPA"
• Look under the title "Dependencies"

Adjustments from original:

• Fixed operation on Ubuntu with sources.list.d in /etc/apt
• Fixed operation on Ubuntu with current add-apt-repository entry filenames
• Broke out definition for repository
• Set timeout=3600 for apt-get update, which can be slow
• Avoided apt-get update if it's been done once since add-apt-repository
• Added g++, libexpat1-dev to nodejs
• Broke out zeromq to its own class
• Packaged it all as a Puppet module
• Added Vagrantfile and Makefile