[gentoo-soc] Puppet module for gentoo -- weekly report #8

[Vikraman]

Hello all,

I am working on improving the puppet-portage module[0], and the state of
gentoo support in upstream puppet modules.

You can follow the development on my fork[1], and this wiki page[2].

Week #8
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Status: on schedule

I couldn't work on the project for the past 2 weeks at least, due to
some academic commitments. But I'm still well within the bounds of my
timeline.

This is my progress this week:

- Type and provider for package.env[3]. An example:
  
  package_env { 'www-client/firefox':
    ensure  => present,
    env     => 'no-lto',
    version => '>=20.0',
  }

- Fixed a bug where the flags/keywords would not be removed if it was
  deleted from the puppet manifest[4].

- Update some old tests with the new property values[5].

- Type and provider for layman (partially done, it's difficult to parse
  layman output)

I'm now looking at some upstream puppet modules and evaluating if they
need to be patched to work properly on gentoo. I've also decided to
write an openrc provider for the puppet-network[6] module.

[0]https://github.com/adrienthebo/puppet-portage
[1]https://github.com/vikraman/puppet-portage
[2]https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Puppet_module_for_Gentoo
[3]https://github.com/adrienthebo/puppet-portage/pull/81
[4]https://github.com/adrienthebo/puppet-portage/pull/84
[5]https://github.com/adrienthebo/puppet-portage/pull/82
[6]https://github.com/adrienthebo/puppet-network

-- 
Vikraman