Thanks for the replies.
I did start off down the route of distributing binaries but was having
problems getting them to run on the different architectures involved
and ended up with multiple packages - and every time I needed to tweak
the build config I was having to rebuild multiple times.
It was so much easier to build on each machine... I perceived the
issue of removing gcc & make afterwards as being an easier problem to
solve. I thought there may be a way to do it without having to drop
down to scripting - but then again - the whole configure/make process
is just a set of scripts so no difference I guess.
Thanks again for the replies.
On Aug 1, 7:09 pm, Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> Yup. This is totally the right way to do that.
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> If you don't want to, I would suggest that you compile once, tar up
> the content, and just untar it on the machine.
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> 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.
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> ...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.
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> daniel
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> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 09:17, vagn scott <vagnsc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 08/01/2011 06:40 AM, David wrote:
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> >> The scenario is, every server in our estate of Debian machines
> >> requires some monitoring software which is not provided as a Debian
> >> package.
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> > You should make your own debian package(s) for the monitoring software
> > instead of installing from source on every machine.
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