I've always thought that if you wanted, consistent, repeatable methodology for install/remove/upgrade that the native packaging is always the way to go and rpm-build does exactly that with tarballs.
I don't think Puppet is the way to drop tarballs && config && make && make install because so many things will break along the way. Craig On Oct 18, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Dan White wrote: > RHEL 5, and the packages in question come as tar-balls that have to be > unrolled into place and then compiled/configured. Not your simple "yum > install...", sad to say. > > ----- Russell Van Tassell <[email protected]> wrote: >> It might be helpful to include the O/S you're asking about, possibly with >> the package... sometimes it's a matter of just changing/adding a >> respository. Sometimes it might be a little more involved. >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Dan White <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Are there any exapmples out there that show an intelligent way to do this ? >>> >>> My searches are not turning up anything useful >>> > > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in > the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- Craig White ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [email protected] 1.800.869.6908 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.ttiassessments.com Need help communicating between generations at work to achieve your desired success? Let us help! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
