On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 8:40:48 AM UTC-6, ge...@timble.net wrote: > > Hi John, > > This Puppet module will be for a Vagrant development environment for about > 5-10 people in our team. Setting up an APT repository and building packages > each time there is a new release takes too much time. If we used it on > production, I would definitely create packages, but I don't see the need in > this case. > > You will do as you think best, of course.
I can't believe, however, that setting up an APT repository is much harder than setting up a YUM repository, which takes maybe five minutes for the basic setup, and almost no time to add / remove packages. As for building packages, it's no harder to build packages than to teach Puppet to install the same software from source. You may need to get over a learning curve, but even that may be minimal if you start from existing packaging for some version of the software you want to build. For the cost of a bit of time spent learning a useful skill, you would gain use of packages for managing the software on your systems, which is a big advantage even before Puppet is considered. John -- 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.
