Maciej Skrzetuski wrote: > Do you mean hosting your own yum repository in your own network? > That is not a bad idea but it would be easier to just copy the files > over to the puppets and then just rpm -ihv <package>, wouldn't it?
No, it wouldn't be. You lose yum's ability to install depndencies for
one. Creating a yum repository is as simple as "createrepo /path/"
and serving that via apache really.
> Another question in this context is: How can I install software (for
> example RPMs) on all my puppets only on demand? Can you tell puppet
> to install s.th. right "now"?
Puppet's not really geared to that sort of one-off thing. Tools like
func or mcollective are better suited for that.
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