Rather you can use in your epel.repo:

includepkgs=puppet puppetmaster foo bar etc.

and it will only utilize those packages from the greater assortment.

We (MNX Solutions) also run a repository for a lot of common packages you may 
be looking for if you'd like a back-up
http://yum.mnxsolutions.com/

-Mark

On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:53 AM, James Louis wrote:

> set enabled=0 in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and use --enablerepo=epel when 
> using yum to install puppet
> 
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Romain Pelisse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Personnally, I just used the EPEL repository to install both puppet and 
> puppetmaster. I still need to figure out a way to tell to yum "hey use EPEL 
> only for puppet" but except for that it works fine...
> 
> 
> On 16 February 2011 12:16, Howard Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been going round in circles a little bit in the last few days
> trying to figure out how to get a 64-bit CentOS-based puppetmaster
> that can be managed/provisioned via puppet also - so I'd like ruby,
> passenger, rails etc coming from RPMs and yum. As far as I can see,
> the three choices are:
> 1) Puppetlabs prosvc repo, which specifically says it can go away at any time
> 2) Premiumhelp repo - 32-bit only
> 3) My own local repo (although I couldn't find working src.rpm/spec
> files for ruby, and I'm by no means a ruby expert)
> 
> What does everyone else do? It seems weird that the tool intended to
> manage everything else is so hard to manage itself (package-wise), so
> I'm assuming I've missed something obvious... obviously there is a
> choice 4 - just build it all from source - but that feels dirty,
> especially on the puppet server!
> 
> Thanks in advance for any illumination,
> 
> Howie
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