Take a look at Jordan Sissel's FPM software if you want a cheap way of
making a deb.
Ken.
On Aug 1, 2011 7:10 PM, "Daniel Pittman" <dan...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> Yup. This is totally the right way to do that.
>
> If you don't want to, I would suggest that you compile once, tar up
> the content, and just untar it on the machine.
>
> If you really, really want to go through installing the compiler,
> building, then removing it, you can: write your script to use apt to
> install the packages, build, and then uninstall again. Maybe specify
> 'package { "gcc": ensure => absent }' so that puppet enforces.
>
> ...but, um, this really doesn't add that much security to your system.
> Sending a binary, or a portable language tool, is not that hard for
> an attacker.
>
> daniel
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 09:17, vagn scott <vagnsc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 08/01/2011 06:40 AM, David wrote:
>>>
>>> The scenario is, every server in our estate of Debian machines
>>> requires some monitoring software which is not provided as a Debian
>>> package.
>>>
>>
>> You should make your own debian package(s) for the monitoring software
>> instead of installing from source on every machine.
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