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

If you take a look at Github's Boxen they source a script (/opt/boxen/env.sh) from ~/.profile. This script runs a bunch of stuff including:

for f in $BOXEN_HOME/env.d/*.sh ; do
  if [ -f $f ] ; then
    source $f
  fi
done

These scripts, in turn, set environment variables for their respective modules.