Installing a puppet module from a manifest script

Question

I\'m using puppet to provision a vagrant (ubuntu based) virtual machine. In my script I need to:

sudo apt-get build-dep python-lxml

I know

Answer 1

@brain_bacon's strategy worked almost perfectly for me, with one small caveat - if the module already exists, then the provisioning script fails, halting the provisioning process. The following adjustment fixed this:

config.vm.provision :shell, :run => "always" do |shell|
  shell.inline = %{
    mkdir -p /etc/puppet/modules;
    function install_module {
      folder=`echo $1 | sed s/.*-//`
      if [ ! -d /etc/puppet/modules/$folder ]; then
        puppet module install $1
      fi
    }
    install_module stdlib
    install_module apt
    install_module ruby
  }
end