On 19 Mag, 22:17, Peter Berghold <salty.cowd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Steven VanDevender <ste...@uoregon.edu>wrote:
>
> > P
>
> > You're probably going to be better off making custom RPM packages for
> > things that you want to have locally-built, place them in a local
> > repository that your systems are configured to access, and then using
> > the Puppet "package" resource type to install them.
>
> I thought that as well, but didn't really want to just yet.
>
> If I go that route I guess it will mean I'll have to get around to doing
> something I've been putting off..  I've been planning to build a custom yum
> repository but that was not going to happen right way.

You might find interesting (also to see how to manage dependencies
among different execs) the custom define I made to manage downloads of
tarballs, extract and compilation / installation commands:
netinstall define
http://git.example42.com/?p=example42modules/.git;a=blob;f=common/manifests/defines/netinstall.pp

an example of usage:
http://git.example42.com/?p=example42modules/.git;a=blob_plain;f=mailscanner/manifests/classes/netinstall.pp

Al

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