In regard to: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Seeking some Puppet advice for a...:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Laurence Cope
<amitywebsoluti...@gmail.com> wrote:
you will need to create your own Yum repository, have Puppet configure yum
to make use of that repo, then create a manifest that installs the package.
Ah right... this bit helps a lot. never thought of creating an own repo,
that makes sense now. so if its in a repo puppet can do it. I will look into
that, and also request Virtualmin do it because I asked them about this on
their forum, but they had no experience with Puppet. Makes sense for it to
come from a repo they manage.
I generally favour my own private yum repositories rather than
upstream repositories for the following reasons:
+1, for all the reasons Matt mentioned.
Making your own repo may seem daunting, but it's not bad at all. If you
have an internal server that's running http and has enough disk space to
store your RPMs, you're already most of the way there.
Tim
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