Re: [Puppet Users] Yum questions

2011-11-04 Thread Dan White
Very nice! Puppet is full of surprises ! I did a local/custom repo with three RPM's in it because I use cobbler to build the machines initially, and I can just put the package name in the cobbler/kickstart package list. I suppose I could have done a cobbler snnippet to load the RPM's, but a cus

Re: [Puppet Users] Yum questions

2011-11-04 Thread Sam Roza
Thank you all. I'll probably use yum, but I am reluctant to get involved in the architecture-just another thing to manage-for a total of 4 packages. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Steven VanDevender wrote: > Sam Roza writes: > > So I use createrepo to make a local repo somewhere-for instance,

Re: [Puppet Users] Yum questions

2011-11-04 Thread Steven VanDevender
Sam Roza writes: > So I use createrepo to make a local repo somewhere-for instance, the puppet > server-and then use that to do the install? If you are reluctant to create a local yum repository (maybe you don't have many custom packages) you can just source a package from a web server or the li

Re: [Puppet Users] Yum questions

2011-11-04 Thread Sam Roza
Puppet uses yum as a tool, not the other way around. I suppose if yum started using puppet to install software, I'd expect them to support a complete featureset as well. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Christopher Wood wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:19:08PM -0700, Sam Roza wrote: > >So

Re: [Puppet Users] Yum questions

2011-11-04 Thread Christopher Wood
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:19:08PM -0700, Sam Roza wrote: >So I use createrepo to make a local repo somewhere-for instance, the >puppet server-and then use that to do the install? >Why doesn't puppet support all of yum features? I'll venture a guess that it's for the same reason that y

Re: [Puppet Users] Yum questions

2011-11-04 Thread Sam Roza
So I use createrepo to make a local repo somewhere-for instance, the puppet server-and then use that to do the install? Why doesn't puppet support all of yum features? On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Dan White wrote: > Just make a local yum repository using your custom RPM's, make sure your > s

Re: [Puppet Users] Yum questions

2011-11-04 Thread Dan White
Just make a local yum repository using your custom RPM's, make sure your system can "see" it, and then a plain "yum install" will work. “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 & H