Thank you all.
I'll probably use yum, but I am reluctant to get involved in the
architecture-just another thing to manage-for a total of 4 packages.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Steven VanDevender <ste...@uoregon.edu>wrote:
> Sam Roza writes:
> > So I use createrepo to make a local repo somewhere-for instance, the
> puppet
> > server-and then use that to do the install?
>
> If you are reluctant to create a local yum repository (maybe you don't
> have many custom packages) you can just source a package from a web
> server or the like:
>
> package { "mypackage":
> source => "http://my.package.server/rpms/mypackage-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
> ",
> ensure => installed,
> before => "needsmypackage",
> }
>
> > Why doesn't puppet support all of yum features?
>
> Puppet supports not just yum but a number of other package providers in
> different OSes and OS distributions. It supports the yum features
> needed to implement its package management mode.
>
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