Thanks for the opinion. I understand your concern, but I have a need to do exactly that.
Making a long story short, RPM's do not work for this need unless you consider a relocatable package <http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-reloc-building-relocatable.html> and I have seen some serious objections to this particular rpm-extension. I need to install multiple instances of a service, some are as simple as "drop tarball, unroll, run a config script", but at least one needs instance-specific parameters compiled into it. I want to automate it. If not puppet, I am open to suggestion, but I have a Cobbler/Puppet combo running very nicely (so far) on RHEL5 boxes, and any alternative needs to "play nice" with that environment. On Oct 18, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Craig White wrote: > 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 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 <russel...@gmail.com> 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 <y...@comcast.net> 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 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. >> > > -- > Craig White ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ craig.wh...@ttiltd.com > 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 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. > -- 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.
