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I want to pull some gitlab repositories using vcsrepo but for some reason it fails to execute.

vcsrepo { "/tmp/repo/update":
 ensure => present,
 provider => git,
 source => "git@gitlab:${git_url}",
 user => 'update',
}

The ssh key belongs to the user update, the source doesn't work with or without 'git@'

The error:

err: /Stage[main]//Node[xxx]/Git::Add_git[webhooks]/Vcsrepo[/tmp/webhooks/update]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could not set 'present on ensure: undefined method `execute' for Puppet::Util::Execution:Module at /tmp/vagrant-puppet-2/modules-0/git/manifests/init.pp:54

What did I do wrong?

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  • help please! :(
    – Granolaboy
    Jan 30, 2015 at 9:00
  • Having same issue, just put a bounty on this.
    – skrilled
    Feb 19, 2015 at 23:25
  • Which version of puppet are you using?
    – Tim Stoop
    Feb 20, 2015 at 14:06
  • Also, your error is noting a resource "Vcsrepo[/tmp/webhooks/update]", but you pasted the resource "/tmp/repo/update". Can you show the definition for /tmp/webhooks/update please?
    – Tim Stoop
    Feb 20, 2015 at 14:09
  • I use a defined type, which adds multiple repositories to my system. It should be ${repo} and the name of the repo is automatically the name of the subfolder. I use Puppet 2.7
    – Granolaboy
    Feb 20, 2015 at 15:59

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If you're using the latest version of vcsrepo (https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/vcsrepo) in Puppet 2.7, that might be the reason why it's not working. According to the forge page, it requires Puppet 3.x.

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  • Then it shouldn't work with Git or SVN though, but I have no problems checking such repos out.
    – Granolaboy
    Feb 20, 2015 at 16:53
  • Are these the only resources for which you use the user parameter? Could the others be using the default user (= the user as which puppet runs?). Reason I'm asking is that it looks to me the code only triggers the 'execute' when the user parameter is used. Check github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-vcsrepo/blob/master/lib/puppet/… line 433.
    – Tim Stoop
    Feb 20, 2015 at 17:59
  • This worked for me; added the puppetlabs repository and used the latest version instead of the version that came bundled with epel.
    – skrilled
    Feb 20, 2015 at 23:27
  • I use two different defined types for SVN and Gitlab, I added the 'user' variable to the Gitlab type because I want to check out the repo with a certain SSH user. Without the 'user' variable I get the following error:
    – Granolaboy
    Feb 24, 2015 at 11:06
  • err: /Stage[main]//Node[xxx]/Git::Add_git[webhooks]/Vcsrepo[/tmp/webhooks/update]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/git clone gitlab://xxx/gitlab-webhooks.git /tmp/webhooks/update' returned 128: Cloning into '/tmp/webhooks/update'... fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'gitlab'
    – Granolaboy
    Feb 24, 2015 at 11:09

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