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I encountered a problem after I had setup my new puppet environment. When I went to run puppet agent -t to test the connection to the puppet master server. The connection worked, however when it got to a part where a package was going to installed, the connection failed. This turned out to be a problem with puppet trying to compile packages using the ports tree. Luckily there is a puppet module that allows the new pkgng package manager to be used as a source.

Installation¶

On the puppet master server, run the follow command:

puppet module install zleslie-pkgng

Then to configure your system to use a pkgng, a simple include will do:

include pkgng

or when you want to use specific pkgng repositories:

pkgng::repo { 'pkg.freebsd.org': }
pkgng::repo { 'my.own.repo': }

Usage¶

Once you have the module installed, you can use it by simply adding a site default in site.pp that looks like this.

Package {
  provider => pkgng
}

Now every package that you install will use the pkgng provider.

Resources¶

https://forge.puppetlabs.com/zleslie/pkgng