Puppet Module to manage tcl-devel package, libtcl symlink and /etc/rndrelease.

This module requires that you have OpenAFS installed. It is intended to be used in cooperation with puppet-module-afs. It is needed for modulecmd to work properly on all platforms.

This module has been tested to work on the following systems with Puppet version 7 with the Ruby version associated with those releases. This module aims to support the current and previous major Puppet versions.

This module provides OS default values for these OSfamilies:

• RedHat/CentOS 6/7/8
• Suse 11/12/15
• Ubuntu 14.04/16.04/18.04/20.04

For other OSfamilies support, please specify all (!) parameters which defaults to undef or [].

• 2.0.0 2022-08-09
  • Update PDK to 2.5.0
  • Move OS specifc data into hiera
  • Add support for RedHat 8
  • Use ensure_packages() to avoid conflicts
  • Refactor unit tests to use rspec-puppet-facts
  • Various small refactors
  • Drop support for historical OS flavours of Ubuntu 12.04, SLED/SLES 10, RedHat 5
  • Drop support for all 32bit OS flavours
  • Drop support for Solaris, Scientific and OracleLinux
• 1.10.0 2020-10-16
  • Add support for Ubuntu 20.04
• 1.9.0 2020-02-12
  • Add support for Red Hat 8
• 1.8.0 2020-01-09
  • Add support for Suse 15
  • Remove ruby 1.8.7 support
• 1.7.1 2018-10-24 * Support Puppet 6.x
• 1.7.0 2018-10-19 * Add support for Ubuntu 18.04
• 1.6.1 2018-09-26 * Support Puppet 5.x
• 1.6.0 2017-08-02 * Add support for CentOS family
• 1.5.0 2017-06-28
  • Add support for Ubuntu 16
  • Enhance unless condition for locale-gen exec resource
  • Add tcl-dev for Ubuntu flavours
• 1.4.0 2017-02-20 Support Puppet 4.9 and Ruby 2.3.1
• 1.3.0 2016-02-24 Add possibility to manage arc console icon
• 1.2.2 2015-08-14 Drop unneeded 32bit support on RedHat 7
• 1.2.1 2015-07-31 Support for Puppet v4
• 1.2.0 2015-05-06 Add ability to unmanage rndrelease file
• 1.1.1 2015-03-24 Manage tcsh package as dependency
• 1.1.0 2015-02-24 Add Ubuntu support for 12.04/14.04
• 1.0.1 2015-02-16
  • Prepare for Puppet v4
  • deprecate type() as preparation for Puppet v4
  • Requires stdlib >= 4.2 now
• 1.0.0 2014-11-13 Initial release

Boolean to trigger creation of /etc/rndrelease file. If set to false /etc/rndrelease will be deleted.

• Default: true

Boolean to trigger management of /etc/rndrelease file. If set to false /etc/rndrelease will not be managed.

• Default: true

Boolean to trigger creation of libtcl symlink.

• Default: true

Boolean to trigger installation of packages.

• Default: true

Array with package names to be installed.

• Default: []

String containing the content for /etc/rndrelease. If set to undef /etc/rndrelease will be deleted.

• Default: undef

Absolute path to the target of the libtcl symlink.

• Default: undef

Boolean to trigger if arc_console.desktop should be managed.

• Default: false

Boolean to trigger creation (true) or deletion (false) of arc_console.desktop for the the arc_console.

• Default: false

Hiera example:

arc::create_rndrelease: true
arc::create_symlink:    true
arc::install_package:   true