Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way of handling source installs

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 15:38 Wed 02 Mar, Steven VanDevender (ste...@uoregon.edu) wrote: > Dr. Ed Morbius writes: > > In the specific pathological case I'm thinking of (Dell's iSCSI > > management tools), the net end result is rather poorly defined and spans > > a significant chunk of the filesystem -- mostly under

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way of handling source installs

2011-03-02 Thread Steven VanDevender
Dr. Ed Morbius writes: > In the specific pathological case I'm thinking of (Dell's iSCSI > management tools), the net end result is rather poorly defined and spans > a significant chunk of the filesystem -- mostly under /opt/dell, but > some stray (and largely undocumented) bits, mostly under /

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way of handling source installs

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 15:20 Wed 02 Mar, Steven VanDevender (ste...@uoregon.edu) wrote: > Dr. Ed Morbius writes: > > While you're considering providers, another case we encounter fairly > > frequently are just general crap ISV or HW vendor-provided blob shell > > installers. Usually a self-unpacking shell script,

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way of handling source installs

2011-03-02 Thread Steven VanDevender
Dr. Ed Morbius writes: > While you're considering providers, another case we encounter fairly > frequently are just general crap ISV or HW vendor-provided blob shell > installers. Usually a self-unpacking shell script, which may itself > include various internal packaging formats (tarballs, RP

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way of handling source installs

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 10:54 Wed 02 Mar, Nigel Kersten (ni...@puppetlabs.com) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Mike Lococo wrote: > > > So Russell, the short of it is that Puppet doesn't provide much to help you > > manage source-installed software.  You can apply puppet's features to other > > software-mana

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way of handling source installs

2011-03-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Mike Lococo wrote: > So Russell, the short of it is that Puppet doesn't provide much to help you > manage source-installed software.  You can apply puppet's features to other > software-management tools to roll something yourself, you can package the > software, or

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way of handling source installs

2011-03-02 Thread Mike Lococo
I am managing a fairly small set of machines (network security monitors) and some of these packages are being installed on just two or three boxes so spending a lot of time building packages is simply not worth it. The apps are also updated fairly frequently and I need to stay on the bleeding edge

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way of handling source installs

2011-03-01 Thread Todd Zullinger
russell.fulton wrote: > I'll repeat the question from my previous post: Is there a straight > forward way to have a local rpm repository on the puppet server > rather than relying on yum and the RHE channels? It's trivial to run createrepo /path/to/rpms to create the yum metadata. You can then s

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way of handling source installs

2011-03-01 Thread Jeff McCune
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:13 PM, russell.fulton wrote: > > I'll repeat the question from my previous post:  Is there a straight > forward way to have a local rpm > repository on the puppet server rather than relying on yum and the RHE > channels? Check out mrepo if you want to mirror another repos

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way of handling source installs

2011-03-01 Thread Frank Sweetser
On 3/1/2011 9:32 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:40 PM, russell.fulton wrote: I am managing a fairly small set of machines (network security monitors) and some of these packages are being installed on just two or three boxes so spending a lot of time building packages is simp

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: best way of handling source installs

2011-03-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:40 PM, russell.fulton wrote: > I am managing a fairly small set of machines (network security > monitors) and some of these packages are being installed on just two > or three boxes so spending a lot of time building packages is simply > not worth it.  The apps  are also