On 12/20/2012 07:16 PM, Dusty Doris wrote: > I have an old fedora 9 machine running ruby 1.9.2-p290, that I'd like to > install puppet on to run as a master. In the documentation it says that > installing from rubygems is not recommended. Is there are particular > reason why its not recommended? Installing from source is also not > recommended, is that a better/worse/same alternative? >
If you're going to use Puppet for learning only, than it's ok to use whatever way do yo fancy. But for production it's generally a bad habit to mix up different package systems. That practice will cost you dearly sooner or later. Your OS has quality package management (rpm & yum) and you should always manage software with it. If you're managing larger infrastructure it will pay off to package software into OS native packages and distribute it that way. Alternatively, you can always try and fetch SRC.RPM from puppetlabs and rebuild them for Fedora 9. -- 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.
