Setting environment variables with puppet

Question

I\'m trying to work out the best way to set some environment variables with puppet.

I could use exec and just do export VAR=blah. However, that would only

Answer 1

Or an alternate means to an indempotent result:

Example

if [[ ! grep PINTO_HOME /root/.bashrc | wc -l > 0 ]] ; then
        echo "export PINTO_HOME=/opt/local/pinto" >> /root/.bashrc ;
fi

This option permits this environmental variable to be set when the presence of the pinto application makes it warrented rather than having to compose a user's .bash_profile regardless of what applications may wind up on the box.