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Larry Ludwig wrote:
| Why not let Puppet install via ruby's gems? I started down a similar
| path with CentOS/RH creating RPMs for gems and felt using the native
| 'gem install' was better, especially when using different
| architectures (ie i386 and x86_64). In addition, if you use the
| puppet's type the recipe install is the exactly the same for any
| platform or operating system.
One major reason to not use gems (or CPAN for Perl), is that it doesn't
play together with the OS packaging system. If an RPM (for example) has
installed a file, gems and CPAN will happily overwrite it, without recording
in the RPM database that the file is now owned by another package. If
you install an updated RPM, it will happily overwrite the gem/CPAN installed
file.
And of course if you find a file that you don't know where it comes from,
you can't do 'rpm -q -f /path/to/file' to learn about it. Instead you
need to realize that you should look in another packaging system for that
information.
Having more than one package system on a machine sucks big time.
For CPAN, there's the cpan2rpm program, which can create an RPM from a
CPAN package, which you can then install using the rpm or yum commands,
and I believe there's a cpan2deb program for Debian/Ubuntu. That gives
me the proper interaction with the normal package system.
I see there's a gem2rpm command available also. I haven't tried using
that, though. If there's a gem2deb command, I'd suggest the OP to try
using that.
/Thomas Bellman
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