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. 
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