Hello,
If you're not managing your own repositories for your own RPMs then second best is the Puppet Labs repo - it will have the latest versions with all the latest bug fixes and features. I'm fairly certain you will need EPEL anyway this for some of the Ruby dependencies (ruby-shadow, ruby-augeas, etc).
In answer to your question about dependencies: No. EPEL should not replace any packages in base RHEL/CentOS - they are extra software that hasn't made it into the mainline (yet).
For your third question, the difference between EPEL and Puppetlabs Repo: EPEL contains a host of extra packages for RHEL/CentOS whereas Puppetlabs Repos will only be for Puppet Labs products. The Puppet Labs repos are generally very fast (you can get an RPM for the latest release in a few days). I'd expect EPEL to be slower, however I know people have been trying to push Puppet into EPEL faster and faster so how far behind the Puppet releases it is I don't know.
-Luke On 29/11/11 11:43, seamie wrote:
Hello, For some time I have been looking for some solution to manage more then a few servers. After some time of searching puppet became by choice :-) I'd like to deploy it on some testing servers (RH/Centos). Which repository would you recommend to use as a source of puppet packages ? I guess that EPEL has newer packages then standard RH/Centos repositories. But if I use EPEL does it invoke many changes in standard RH/Centos packages related to packages dependencies ? I am considering EPEL or yum.puppetlabs.com repositories (what is a difference between them ?). Best regards
-- Luke Bigum Information Systems +44 (0) 20 3192 2520 luke.bi...@lmax.com | http://www.lmax.com LMAX, Yellow Building, 1A Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN The information in this e-mail and any attachment is confidential and is intended only for the named recipient(s). The e-mail may not be disclosed or used by any person other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If you are not a named recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete any copies of this message. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Any view or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. -- 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.
