On Jun 26, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> > Bjørn Dyresen wrote: >> On Jun 25, 2009, at 10:42 PM, 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? >>> >>> >> >> It is possible to do anything with puppet through the exec type. >> However if you are expecting a lot of these cases I recommend >> building the packages and use your distributions package manager >> instead. This is much cleaner and a more maintainable way of doing >> it. >> > > I had to hack a single_exec type.. it drops a touch file after it > runs a > script. It is nasty, but if the script is not idempotent.. it works. > Yes, Im also doing this. I still think if you are expecting a lot of these scenarios, you will be way better off with building the packages and use the package manager. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
