SLES Support

[poikilotherm]

Hi there,

I would like to extend the code for some SLES specific stuff, as we use a lot of SLES server VMs.

As on SLES there is "zypper" as the default and only supported tool, I would like to extend the code to use the zypprepo type created by Darin (https://forge.puppetlabs.com/darin/zypprepo), which was not included into core puppet but published as a module (see Feature #11864 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11864). Of course this adds a dependency to this module, but it would be really nice to have a real zypper repo.

Kind regards, Poikilotherm

[razorsedge]

I was planning on merging in some of the code in https://github.com/scottjab/puppet-vmwaretools/ . Feel free to send a PR with SuSE support.

[poikilotherm]

Alright, I will take a fork of that code (as it is on 4.1.0 base) and merge in your current master. I'll get the code out to our servers for testing and report back then.

[salderma]

Hi, I was hoping to join in this effort, as I have a few SLES boxes I'm trying to shoehorn into puppet/foreman. And since vmwaretools is applied in one of the top level HostGroups, I'm struggling to get the SLES boxes in there because at the moment it is a $supported platform, so its not skipped, even though support is non-functional.

I was wondering if it wouldn't be a better choice to craft a parameter that represents the repo package url from http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/repos/index.html. Then the module could install the package from a URL. This might apply well for all operatingsystems vmware supports.

I'm not completely certain how to craft that URL, but it would seem that once the repo-package is installed, any updates to the repo could be applied by ensuring that package is the "latest".

[ashleygould]

Hi, I just pushed a suse_support branch into my fork yesterday: https://github.com/ashleygould/puppet-vmwaretools/tree/suse_support

It uses zypprepo type (dependancy on darin/zypprepo) on sles systems and corrects the $baseurl_url creation to accomodate how sles repos are named at http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/index.html. I am doing more testing on my site before making a pull request. also, I should knuckle down and learn puppet-rspec properly.

I am not entirely happy with how I correct $baseurl_url. It could be much cleaner, but would involve a lot more refactering of existing params.pp. Any suggestion are welcome.

[razorsedge]

@ashleygould After a quick glance at your code, I see that it would need some rspec test modifications to pass unit tests, but otherwise looks OK. I will look more closely at the $baseurl_url munging for any suggestions.

[razorsedge]

d15cca7 is an example of what I did for SLES support in my razorsedge/cloudera repo.

[razorsedge]

Merged in SLES support in commit aae2614478b4ba9a6739a6cac97e4f31b874822d.

[razorsedge]

Released to the Forge as version 4.9.0.