On 20 January 2011 15:08, Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 20:02, John Warburton <jwarbur...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 2) Trying to pre-compile the gem and install it. Since I have no idea what > I > > This. Always do this. It gives you predictable, uniform behaviour, a > uniform interface to specify dependencies between the gem and OS > packages (well, not pkg, maybe ;), and a way to ensure that you have > exactly the same binary code on every machine. > Thanks Daniel - needed that level of definitiveness :-) > PS: I have "packaged" some gems by literally wrapping the standard OS > packaging tools around running "gem install" with an option to write > to the correct place. Worked fine for our needs, so it doesn't > require a lot of infrastructure, and you can fetch the thing with 'gem > fetch' for easy operation. > That gave me the push I needed, and now have my fave packager ( http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/) compiling the gem into a packaging directory for packaging as non root: gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc mysql --install-dir /some/where/users/can/write --source http://our/gem/repo Regards John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
