Re: [Puppet Users] Using a set of recipes to build stuff from source...

2010-05-20 Thread Dan Carley
On 19 May 2010 21:17, Peter Berghold wrote: > I thought that as well, but didn't really want to just yet. > > If I go that route I guess it will mean I'll have to get around to doing > something I've been putting off.. I've been planning to build a custom yum > repository but that was not going

Re: [Puppet Users] Using a set of recipes to build stuff from source...

2010-05-19 Thread Patrick
On May 19, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Peter Berghold wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm a newbie to this wonderful tool called puppet and so far I'm loving it. > > One of the first set of recipes (classes?) I wrote for my environment was to > build some packages from source and install them. Stuff like apac

Re: [Puppet Users] Using a set of recipes to build stuff from source...

2010-05-19 Thread Peter Berghold
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Steven VanDevender wrote: > P > > You're probably going to be better off making custom RPM packages for > things that you want to have locally-built, place them in a local > repository that your systems are configured to access, and then using > the Puppet "package

[Puppet Users] Using a set of recipes to build stuff from source...

2010-05-19 Thread Steven VanDevender
Peter Berghold writes: > Hi folks, > > I'm a newbie to this wonderful tool called puppet and so far I'm loving it. > > One of the first set of recipes (classes?) I wrote for my environment was to > build some packages from source and install them. Stuff like apache httpd, > nagios and othe

[Puppet Users] Using a set of recipes to build stuff from source...

2010-05-19 Thread Peter Berghold
Hi folks, I'm a newbie to this wonderful tool called puppet and so far I'm loving it. One of the first set of recipes (classes?) I wrote for my environment was to build some packages from source and install them. Stuff like apache httpd, nagios and others I prefer to build from source because th