On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:09:35PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Graham Stratton <grah...@mocomedia.net> writes: > > > I have just tried to install puppet 0.24.8 as a gem on a clean Debian > > Lenny system. The puppetd script is not added to my path. Is this a > > bug or have I made a mistake? > > Gem and real distribution packages collide in unfortunate ways that make > it hard to support gems within distribution packaging and maintain the > guarantees of distribution packaging in sane ways (such as "everything in > /usr/bin is owned by a package"). I suspect that you're encountering one > of those problems. > > It's generally better, on Debian systems, to use the standard Puppet > packages. There isn't a 0.24.8 package yet, but I suspect there will be > fairly quickly. Once there is, although it will be uploaded for Debian > sid, you can download it from packages.debian.org and install it on an > older Debian system.
As a point of reference, it took about 2-3 weeks for 0.24.7 to get packaged. You'll have to get it from the experimental repository, though. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
