Puppet users - Jan 2011 - puppet 2.6.4 installation options for redhat/centos

After a quick read of the ''Installation Guide'' at
puppetlabs.com I see
that there is either tar or distro options. I looked at distro option
and see that for redhat there is only outdated
puppet-0.25.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm  at
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/
. No rpms for 2.6.4. Anyway that EPEL source of rpms would be my last
option.
Tried the latest tar option with puppet-2.6.4.tar.gz and see that that
install.rb is very buggy - there are serious permission problems. The
steps from the ''Installation Guide'' do not produce a running
server:

tar xzvf puppet-2.6.4.tar.gz
cd puppet-2.6.4
ruby install.rb
cd /etc/puppet
puppet --genconfig > puppet.conf
mkdir -p /etc/puppet/manifests
cd /etc/puppet/manifests
cat <<EOF > site.pp
# site.pp
file { "/etc/sudoers":
    owner => root, group => root, mode => 440
}
EOF
puppetmasterd --mkusers
puppetmasterd


The puppetmasterd does not start. You have to start the creative part
with fixing permissions in /etc and var by hand. Then run into ssl
certs issues.  Does anyone have a "real" installation guide that
works?

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Hi,

For installing the latest version of puppet under RedHat / CentOS you
can use the following address

http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/repo/puppet/epel/5Server/

As fare as I know it''s the "private" repository of the
maintainer for
the puppet packages in EPEL.

Best regards
Sebastain

Am 05.01.2011 16:24, schrieb pzi:
> After a quick read of the ''Installation Guide'' at
puppetlabs.com I see
> that there is either tar or distro options. I looked at distro option
> and see that for redhat there is only outdated
> puppet-0.25.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm  at
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/
> . No rpms for 2.6.4. Anyway that EPEL source of rpms would be my last
> option.
> Tried the latest tar option with puppet-2.6.4.tar.gz and see that that
> install.rb is very buggy - there are serious permission problems. The
> steps from the ''Installation Guide'' do not produce a
running server:
> 
> tar xzvf puppet-2.6.4.tar.gz
> cd puppet-2.6.4
> ruby install.rb
> cd /etc/puppet
> puppet --genconfig > puppet.conf
> mkdir -p /etc/puppet/manifests
> cd /etc/puppet/manifests
> cat <<EOF > site.pp
> # site.pp
> file { "/etc/sudoers":
>     owner => root, group => root, mode => 440
> }
> EOF
> puppetmasterd --mkusers
> puppetmasterd
> 
> 
> The puppetmasterd does not start. You have to start the creative part
> with fixing permissions in /etc and var by hand. Then run into ssl
> certs issues.  Does anyone have a "real" installation guide that
> works?
> 
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On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:24 AM, pzi wrote:
> After a quick read of the ''Installation Guide'' at
puppetlabs.com I see
> that there is either tar or distro options. I looked at distro option
> and see that for redhat there is only outdated
> puppet-0.25.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm  at
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/
> . No rpms for 2.6.4. Anyway that EPEL source of rpms would be my last
> option.
> Tried the latest tar option with puppet-2.6.4.tar.gz and see that that
> install.rb is very buggy - there are serious permission problems. The
> steps from the ''Installation Guide'' do not produce a
running server:
> 
> tar xzvf puppet-2.6.4.tar.gz
> cd puppet-2.6.4
> ruby install.rb
> cd /etc/puppet
> puppet --genconfig > puppet.conf
> mkdir -p /etc/puppet/manifests
> cd /etc/puppet/manifests
> cat <<EOF > site.pp
> # site.pp
> file { "/etc/sudoers":
>    owner => root, group => root, mode => 440
> }
> EOF
> puppetmasterd --mkusers
> puppetmasterd
> 
> 
> The puppetmasterd does not start. You have to start the creative part
> with fixing permissions in /etc and var by hand. Then run into ssl
> certs issues.  Does anyone have a "real" installation guide that
> works?
FWIW, I just went through the same annoyance, slightly different issues on
Ubuntu 10.04, it''s not just Red Hat/Cent OS that''s way out of
date.

S

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Just as I said if I have a choice of using tar file from the source I
will always favor it over rpms cooked in unknown environment.

I actually found the fix for the tar file method - the ''installation/
configuration'' writeup on puppetlabs just miss setting ownership on /
etc/puppet and /var/lib/puppet.
The complete set of commands is (as root):

tar xzvf puppet-2.6.4.tar.gz
cd puppet-2.6.4
ruby install.rb
cd /etc/puppet
puppet --genconfig > puppet.conf
mkdir -p /etc/puppet/manifests
cd /etc/puppet/manifests
cat <<EOF > site.pp
# site.pp
file { "/etc/sudoers":
    owner => root, group => root, mode => 440
}

EOF
puppetmasterd --mkusers
cd /var/lib/puppet
chown -R puppet:puppet .
cd /etc/puppet
chown -R puppet:puppet .

puppetmasterd


On Jan 5, 10:46 am, "sstein...@gmail.com" <sstein...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:24 AM, pzi wrote:
>
>
>
> > After a quick read of the ''Installation Guide'' at
puppetlabs.com I see
> > that there is either tar or distro options. I looked at distro option
> > and see that for redhat there is only outdated
> > puppet-0.25.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm
 athttp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/
> > . No rpms for 2.6.4. Anyway that EPEL source of rpms would be my last
> > option.
> > Tried the latest tar option with puppet-2.6.4.tar.gz and see that that
> > install.rb is very buggy - there are serious permission problems. The
> > steps from the ''Installation Guide'' do not produce a
running server:
>
> > tar xzvf puppet-2.6.4.tar.gz
> > cd puppet-2.6.4
> > ruby install.rb
> > cd /etc/puppet
> > puppet --genconfig > puppet.conf
> > mkdir -p /etc/puppet/manifests
> > cd /etc/puppet/manifests
> > cat <<EOF > site.pp
> > # site.pp
> > file { "/etc/sudoers":
> >    owner => root, group => root, mode => 440
> > }
> > EOF
> > puppetmasterd --mkusers
> > puppetmasterd
>
> > The puppetmasterd does not start. You have to start the creative part
> > with fixing permissions in /etc and var by hand. Then run into ssl
> > certs issues.  Does anyone have a "real" installation guide
that
> > works?
>
> FWIW, I just went through the same annoyance, slightly different issues on
Ubuntu 10.04, it''s not just Red Hat/Cent OS that''s way out of
date.
>
> S
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pzi wrote:
> Just as I said if I have a choice of using tar file from the source
> I will always favor it over rpms cooked in unknown environment.
Just FYI, the packages in my repo are built in the Fedora/EPEL
buildsystem.  They''re signed with the same GPG key I use for my mail
as well.  Not that you should trust me.  But then, if you don''t, just
know that I can as easily slip a trojan into my personal repository as
I can into the EPEL packages -- if I were that sort of miscreant. :)

Also, it should be pretty simple to build your own rpm packages from
the spec file in the tarball or from the srpm in my repository (the
process has been documented numerous times on this list).

Any of those is preferable to installing directly from a tarball.

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ssteinerX@gmail.com wrote:
> FWIW, I just went through the same annoyance, slightly different
> issues on Ubuntu 10.04, it''s not just Red Hat/Cent OS
that''s way out
> of date.
It''s always tricky to keep up with a relatively young and fast moving
project like puppet -- especially if you don''t want to make end users
fear running a simple ''yum update'' (or apt, etc.).  If every
update
was guaranteed not to break anyone''s currently working manifests,
I''d
happily roll out puppet updates in EPEL much more often.  But that''s
not an easy task.

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On Jan 5, 3:24 pm, pzi <pzi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After a quick read of the ''Installation Guide'' at
puppetlabs.com I see
> that there is either tar or distro options. I looked at distro option
> and see that for redhat there is only outdated
> puppet-0.25.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm
 athttp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/
> . No rpms for 2.6.4. Anyway that EPEL source of rpms would be my last
> option.
Hi Pzi,

I wrote this a while back for installing Puppet 2.6.x on CentOS using
RPM''s/Yum (assuming you want Dashboard et al as well)... it may be
useful for what you''re trying to do

http://www.craigdunn.org/2010/08/part-1-installing-puppet-2-6-1-on-centos-with-yumrpm/

Regards
Craig

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Do you plan to bring these builds into Koji to make them more visible?

Regards,
  Dennis

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