Re: [Puppet Users] Temporary requirements

2011-08-01 Thread Ken Barber
Take a look at Jordan Sissel's FPM software if you want a cheap way of making a deb. Ken. On Aug 1, 2011 7:10 PM, "Daniel Pittman" wrote: > Yup. This is totally the right way to do that. > > If you don't want to, I would suggest that you compile once, tar up > the content, and just untar it on th

Re: [Puppet Users] Temporary requirements

2011-08-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
Yup. This is totally the right way to do that. If you don't want to, I would suggest that you compile once, tar up the content, and just untar it on the machine. If you really, really want to go through installing the compiler, building, then removing it, you can: write your script to use apt to

Re: [Puppet Users] Temporary requirements

2011-08-01 Thread vagn scott
On 08/01/2011 06:40 AM, David wrote: The scenario is, every server in our estate of Debian machines requires some monitoring software which is not provided as a Debian package. You should make your own debian package(s) for the monitoring software instead of installing from source on every m

[Puppet Users] Temporary requirements

2011-08-01 Thread David
Hi, I'm quite new to Puppet.. I'm wondering if someone could point me in the right direction regarding the best way to manage a temporary requirement within Puppet? The scenario is, every server in our estate of Debian machines requires some monitoring software which is not provided as a Debian pa