Matt, I would like to understand this better and help you adopt Puppet into your environment.
This is not a rhetorical question, but it might sound like one: Do you rebuild your linux distribution from source RPMs? Because that is very similar to what the AIO Puppet agent bundle is: a mini distribution with the dependencies ending up in one artifact. People outside Puppet can (and have) successfully rebuilt AIO, and there are also sucessful packaging efforts that take JUST the Puppet 4 source and build a standalone RPM from it in the manner of the puppet 3 packages: puppet-4.2.1-3.fc24.src.rpm <http://fedora.osuosl.org/linux/releases/test/24_Beta/Everything/source/tree/Packages/p/puppet-4.2.1-3.fc24.src.rpm> But our recommendation is to use the all-in-one obviously; it's what's tested extensively and what ships in puppet enterprise. --eric On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 2:01:43 AM UTC-7, Matt Larson wrote: > > Sorry for not getting back soon, Dan. > > Good question. > > I work for a draconian company that only allows installing FOSS after our > infosec team has vetted the source code and then built from source; an > impossible hand-waving exercise, I know... but it is what it is. > > On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 2:51:10 PM UTC-4, LinuxDan wrote: >> >> First Silly Question: Why ? >> What do you need to do that cannot be done with the RPM's from a >> Puppetlabs repo ? >> >> Dan White | d_e_...@icloud.com >> ------------------------------------------------ >> “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in >> the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” (Bill Waterson: >> Calvin & Hobbes) >> >> >> On Jun 03, 2016, at 02:44 PM, Matt Larson <dryhum...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> I'm trying to create an RPM from source on a stock RHEL6-based (CentOS6) >> instance, but I'm seeing errors. I also posted in >> https://ask.puppet.com/question/26388/trouble-creating-a-release-rpm-from-puppetlabspuppet-source-repo/ >> >> >> The output actually gets pretty far along, but stops at with this error: >> "install: cannot stat ext/redhat/puppet.conf: no such file or directory". >> If I fix that problem by manually editing the SPEC file, I just get more >> errors, so clearly there is no need to go down a rabbit hole since this >> must work for someone else, right? >> >> I'm also posted in >> https://ask.puppet.com/question/26388/trouble-creating-a-release-rpm-from-puppetlabspuppet-source-repo/ >> >> Ideas? >> >> Thanks in Advance, >> Matt >> >> >> -- >> 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...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/8d532582-be4b-4e58-813e-0e3519043a3f%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/8d532582-be4b-4e58-813e-0e3519043a3f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/07f2aed4-eb2b-4d32-aebb-e05dd0377817%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
