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 > > -- > 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. > > > > > -- > Romain PELISSE, > "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist > on coming along and trying to put things in it" -- Terry Pratchett > http://belaran.eu/wordpress/belaran > > > -- > 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. > > > > -- > To be is to do = Immanuel Kant > To do is to be = Descartes. > Do be do be do = Frank Sinatra > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
