node.js manifests/params.pp & manifests/init.pp should support Scientific Linux

[stefanlasiewski]

I am using Scientific Linux 6.4, which is a derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is similar to CentOS. SL is used extensively at research labs and higher-education institutions.

I was attempting to install Puppet Labs Razor onto a Scientific Linux 6.4 box, and the install failed with the following error. I posted the error to the puppet-razor mailing-list, and they recommended that I file a bug here [1].

root@sl6:~ # puppet apply /etc/puppet/modules/razor/tests/init.pp
Class nodejs does not support Scientific at /etc/puppet/modules/nodejs/manifests/params.pp:55 on node sl6.example.gov

It appears that node.js does not support Scientific Linux:

root@sl6:~ # puppet apply /etc/puppet/modules/nodejs/tests/init.pp
Class nodejs does not support Scientific at /etc/puppet/modules/nodejs/manifests/params.pp:55 on node sl6.example.gov

Please update nodejs to support Scientific Linux.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-razor/bJIz1Fs7r7k

[stefanlasiewski]

I managed to workaround this with the following changes:

root@sl6:/etc/puppet/modules/nodejs # diff manifests/params.pp manifests/params.pp.orig 
26c26
<     'RedHat', 'CentOS', 'OEL', 'OracleLinux', 'Scientific', 'Scientific Linux': {
---
>     'RedHat', 'CentOS', 'OEL', 'OracleLinux': {
root@sl6:/etc/puppet/modules/nodejs # diff manifests/init.pp manifests/init.pp.orig 
42c42
<     'Fedora', 'RedHat', 'CentOS', 'OEL', 'OracleLinux', 'Amazon', 'Scientific', 'Scientific Linux': {
---
>     'Fedora', 'RedHat', 'CentOS', 'OEL', 'OracleLinux', 'Amazon': {
root@sl6:/etc/puppet/modules/nodejs # puppet apply /etc/puppet/modules/nodejs/tests/init.pp

Notice: Finished catalog run in 1.15 seconds

root@sl6:/etc/puppet/modules/nodejs #

[stefanlasiewski]

And I committed a fix to my fork on Github.

stefanlasiewski@b4ae697

[haus]

It looks like another fix here would be to use osfamily instead of operatingsystem. Then osfamily could be redhat and catch all of those flavors.

[eigenhombre]

+1, I just got bit by this as well.

[juniorsysadmin]

Scientific Linux should now work, but I haven't tested and can only base this opinion on unscientific evidence.