Re: [Puppet Users] status of cpan provider?

2010-05-03 Thread Alan McKay
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Michael Stahnke wrote: > know that I have put over 25 packages into EPEL simply because I > needed them at my day job, and decided if I had to maintain the > package once, I may as well do that for everyone else. Yes, this is a very good point Michael and I'd be u

[Puppet Users] Demand for Puppet Class in Ottawa, Canada?

2010-04-30 Thread Alan McKay
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: > You might also want to go to our Puppet class... it's very good for > understanding why you would use all of the various components in > conjunction with one another. > We've got one in DC coming up soon and are going to be in the Bay Area >

Re: [Puppet Users] LF complete recipe bundle

2010-04-30 Thread Alan McKay
> http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Complete_Configuration Excellent! I had not found that! This was my biggest problem with Puppet the last time I looked at it about 6 or 7 months ago - I understood the concepts of what the docs were telling me, but I needed a "big picture

[Puppet Users] LF complete recipe bundle

2010-04-29 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I've seen the recipes page and smatterings of "this-and-that", but what I'd really like to see is a big tarball of someone's entire /etc/puppet directory on their puppetmaster, to be able to see the interactions between all the different components. What would be really useful is seei

Re: [Puppet Users] Hostname was not a match with the server certificate -- Arrgh!

2010-04-29 Thread Alan McKay
What version are you using? I just had the same issue with a 0.23 version and when I upgraded to 0.25 it went away -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [Puppet Users] status of cpan provider?

2010-04-28 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Brad Lhotsky wrote: > Not to mention the RedHat Perl distribution has been notoriously bad.  I > know the last 5.8.8 release still shipped without weak reference support. >  Try to install Moose or any Modern Perl Module, without weak reference > support! H, i

Re: [Puppet Users] status of cpan provider?

2010-04-28 Thread Alan McKay
> I'm biased towards, when possible, distributing package content via > RPM or deb ... but ideally, those too.   You are free to ignore that, > but those are my preferences. It is also mine, but about 30 of the packages our code uses are not found in the CentOS RPMs. I've been looking at every i

Re: [Puppet Users] status of cpan provider?

2010-04-28 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: > Doing really minimal packaging for the CPAN modules you use, if not > already packaged, would be worth it in my opinion. So how do you mean? One thing I was thinking of is building once on a central machine and then sticking it from there

[Puppet Users] status of cpan provider?

2010-04-27 Thread Alan McKay
Hi folks, I was just digging through the archives and found some comments from Sept 2008 about CPAN provider being immature. What is the current status? One of the main things I'd like to do with puppet is keep CPAN modules updated. thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advert

Re: [Puppet Users] cannot get certificates working

2010-04-27 Thread Alan McKay
OK, finally it is doing something! I see this in the logs on puppet02 Apr 27 14:31:09 localhost puppetd[13325]: Starting Puppet client version 0.25.4 Apr 27 14:31:11 localhost puppetd[13325]: (//File[/etc/passwd]/group) group changed 'root' to 'bin' Apr 27 14:31:11 localhost puppetd[13325]: Finis

Re: [Puppet Users] cannot get certificates working

2010-04-27 Thread Alan McKay
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Charles Johnson wrote: > I use CentOS 5.x and I have rarely had luck with the packages for > puppet/ruby/passenger. > 0.22.4 is just too old to fool with IMHO. puppet-server-0.25.4-1.el5 puppet-0.25.4-1.el5 I just picked these up out of EPEL and will report back

Re: [Puppet Users] cannot get certificates working

2010-04-27 Thread Alan McKay
>> > [r...@puppet01 ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i puppet >> > puppet-server-0.22.4-1.el5.rf >> > puppet-0.22.4-1.el5.rf > > mostly I think you do not ever want to use this version of puppet :) H, OK, I'll look into that further. Thanks. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”

[Puppet Users] cannot get certificates working

2010-04-27 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I'm just about ready to go bananas over here! I read the FAQ, and yes, I am doing a reinstall. But as you will see below I believe I am cleaning things out properly so there are no false cert remnants lying around. I'm going bonkers as to why the cert exchange is not working I've