Peter, Puppet works great on gentoo with the following caveats: - Puppet conceptually uses a binary package paradigm, and one needs to work around that. It would be nice if we could extend puppet for gentoo to make it more "source based distribution aware" and especially allow it to manage portage configuration files and limit compile times/etc. - Do to the differences between binary and source, one frequently will setup puppet to run only once/day on server nodes during off peak hours so that any compiling/package dependencies will not occur during critical periods - and if possible, all compiling will occur on the build server prior to puppet agent calls on other nodes. - Gentoo supports more cron systems than puppet supports (last I checked, puppet did not support fcron) - Gentoo admins are slightly behind redhat/fedora admins in writing public modules, this is an area where there is a significant amount of activity and I hope we can eventually catch up on. - The handling of dependencies and libraries is not clear cut, and one usually has to create a separate script to run after puppet to ensure linking is correct and that python/perl/etc modules are happy.
There are additional issues, but all of them to date can be reasonably overcome/managed. I've been in contact with many admins w/ larger sized clusters and improving the puppet experience on gentoo is a frequent topic of conversation. I wouldn't be discouraged by any initial issues you find. Matt On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Peter Berghold <salty.cowd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Doing a google after I sent the email I found the following page: > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Puppet_Gentoo > > after doing a "emerge eix" and re-running the puppet transaction things > *look* to be going normally.... can't tell for sure since it is still > running and it is not generating any spew for me to look at. > > I'll know in a while if it worked. > > > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:43 PM, James Turnbull <ja...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: >> >> Peter Berghold wrote: >> > Now I get: >> > err: Could not prefetch package provider 'portage': Command update_eix >> > is missing >> > >> > I'm running puppet 2.7.3 on both the puppet master and the client. Any >> > thoughts? >> >> Caveat: I am not a Gentoo person. >> >> Is the binary update_eix present on the host? >> >> James >> >> -- >> James Turnbull >> Puppet Labs >> 1-503-734-8571 >> >> Join us for PuppetConf <http://www.bit.ly/puppetconfsig>, September 22nd >> and 23rd in Portland, Oregon, USA. >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Peter L. Berghold > Owner, Shark River Technical Solutions LLC > > -- > 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. > -- Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com Senior Internet Infrastructure Consultant DevOps/VMware/SysAdmin https://www.twitter.com/deploylinux Gentoo Linux Dev "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." -- C.S. Lewis -- 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.
