Hi, We are trying to determine the best way to install puppet using passenger. Is it best to install passenger via yum by making an RPM package or using ruby gems? What are the main gotchas using either? Many thanks Oli -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:07 PM, vioilly <oliverleach@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > > We are trying to determine the best way to install puppet using passenger. > Is it best to install passenger via yum by making an RPM package or using > ruby gems? What are the main gotchas using either?I''d definitely recommend RPMs (or insert your OS''s native packaging format here) over other packaging formats. It just integrates and plays nicer with the OS as a whole simply because it''s all using the same package DB. If you use gems for some packages and RPMs for others, the potential for file conflicts is always there. It also provides less administration overhead as you only need to learn one set of commands to understand what packages you have installed, which ones are available, and which ones are update/upgrade candidates. In addition, I''d also recommend creating your own yum repository(ies) so that you''re not reliant on the availability of 3rd party repos/external network connections, and can control the versions of all your packages so you can stick with versions that have been well tested in your environments. As far as passenger is concerned, there are RPMs already available from http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/ for various flavours of RHEL, Fedora and SL, so you shouldn''t need to build your own. Regards, Matt. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Hi Oli, I strongly recommend packaging everything up. It makes your life a lot easier in the long term. Package systems like RPM with Yum give you a lot of benefits, like package verification, easy updates, dependency resolution across your system, easy way to uninstall packages etc. The other strong advantage of proper distribution packages is that you will not need to have things like gcc or development-tools installed on your servers. Gem are quite nice, especially if you''re on Ubuntu or similar deb-based distributions, because these type of distros just simply do not package gems at all to native packages (deb in this case). If you''re not very experienced in packaging software to RPM packages, have a look at tool called "fpm" - it can easily create you an RPM package right from a gem package. Even though I do not recommend using fpm built packages in production. Thanks, Vaidas On Wednesday, 13 February 2013 15:07:17 UTC, vioilly wrote:> > Hi, > > We are trying to determine the best way to install puppet using passenger. > Is it best to install passenger via yum by making an RPM package or using > ruby gems? What are the main gotchas using either? > > Many thanks > Oli >-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Vaidas and Matt - thats perfect information. Yum it is for me... Thanks for your posts! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.