Thanks for the reply. So there is nothing inherently wrong with the rubygems package that we would run into? We already use rubygems for several services, so it seems like the easiest route for us.
Doing a yum install, it wanted to install version 0.24. I will look into repackaging it though, that might work for us too. Thanks On Thursday, December 20, 2012 2:38:13 PM UTC-5, Jakov Sosic wrote: > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/2W19ze3XrGMJ. 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.
