Puppet install rpms via http sources

The redhat package manager - rpm has the capability to install packages
from an url. As simple as

rpm -ivh http://example.com/package.rpm

Taking this in consideration we can use this into puppet to install packages
from an url.

Save this text as test.pp

class examplerpm ( $src ) {

  package { 'package':
     provider => 'rpm',
     ensure => installed,
     source => "${examplerpm::rpm}"
 }
}

class { 'examplerpm':
  src => 'https://example.com/package.rpm',
}


Apply the manifest with puppet

puppet apply --debug --no-daemonize test.pp

Voila - the package is installed via puppet->rpm provider.
The key to all this is to specify the provider into the Package section of
examplerpm class. This ensures that rpm will go fetch the source and installs
it.

Build xen templates images with yum and rpm

Great example

http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Building_a_Xen_Guest_Root_Filesystem_using_yum_and_rpm