Bjørn Dyresen wrote: > On Jun 25, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Neil K wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am pretty new to Puppet. My puppet master server is a RHEL 5 box and >> puppet client is a CentOS 5.3 vm. I have managed to configure puppet >> server to successfully install.and upgrade rpm based packages on the >> client machine. Is it possible to install noon-rpm based packages >> using puppet? Like packages comes as tar.gz such as web based >> applications? >> >> > > It is possible to do anything with puppet through the exec type. > However if you are expecting a lot of these cases I recommend > building the packages and use your distributions package manager > instead. This is much cleaner and a more maintainable way of doing it. >
I had to hack a single_exec type.. it drops a touch file after it runs a script. It is nasty, but if the script is not idempotent.. it works. -- bk --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---