Neil K wrote: > Hi all, > > I am pretty new to Puppet. My puppet master server is a RHEL 5 box and > puppet client is a CentOS 5.3 vm. I have managed to configure puppet > server to successfully install.and upgrade rpm based packages on the > client machine. Is it possible to install noon-rpm based packages > using puppet? Like packages comes as tar.gz such as web based > applications? > > If it is possible, please provide any example manifests or any good > documents that I can follow. >
Yes.. it is possible. Depending on the scripts that are required to install the package, there are some hacks you may need to do. There are some examples of scripts here: http://www.thincrust.org/help.html They are tailored for running puppet stand alone to build appliances.. so YMMV... but it proves it can be done :) -- bk --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
