Hi Oli, I strongly recommend packaging everything up. It makes your life a lot easier in the long term. Package systems like RPM with Yum give you a lot of benefits, like package verification, easy updates, dependency resolution across your system, easy way to uninstall packages etc.
The other strong advantage of proper distribution packages is that you will not need to have things like gcc or development-tools installed on your servers. Gem are quite nice, especially if you're on Ubuntu or similar deb-based distributions, because these type of distros just simply do not package gems at all to native packages (deb in this case). If you're not very experienced in packaging software to RPM packages, have a look at tool called "fpm" - it can easily create you an RPM package right from a gem package. Even though I do not recommend using fpm built packages in production. Thanks, Vaidas On Wednesday, 13 February 2013 15:07:17 UTC, vioilly wrote: > > Hi, > > We are trying to determine the best way to install puppet using passenger. > Is it best to install passenger via yum by making an RPM package or using > ruby gems? What are the main gotchas using either? > > Many thanks > Oli > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
