Puppet uses yum as a tool, not the other way around. I suppose if yum started using puppet to install software, I'd expect them to support a complete featureset as well.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Christopher Wood <christopher_w...@pobox.com > wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:19:08PM -0700, Sam Roza wrote: > > So I use createrepo to make a local repo somewhere-for instance, the > > puppet server-and then use that to do the install? > > Why doesn't puppet support all of yum features? > > I'll venture a guess that it's for the same reason that yum doesn't > already support all of puppet's features. They do different things and that > kind of duplication is pointless. > > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Dan White <[1]y...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > > > Just make a local yum repository using your custom RPM's, make sure > your > > system can "see" it, and then a plain "yum install" will work. > > > > �Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists > > elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact > us.� > > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > ----- Sam Roza <[2]samr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > > > I come from the RHN age and don't quite have my head fully wrapped > > around > > > yum. I know that puppet exclusively uses yum to install RPMs. I > have > > some > > > custom modules to write, but they require custom RPMs be > installed. > > Not > > > being the most well-versed person with yum, I don't want to get > too > > deep > > > into yum architecture if I don't have to. > > > > > > Can puppet be made to execute yum localinstall [pkgname]? It seems > > like it > > > would remove many steps from my module-filebucket the RPMs, and > > execute > > > localinstall to install them. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [3] > puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [4]puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > [5]http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [6] > puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [7]puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > [8]http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > References > > > > Visible links > > 1. mailto:y...@comcast.net > > 2. mailto:samr...@gmail.com > > 3. mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com > > 4. mailto:puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > 5. http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en > > 6. mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com > > 7. mailto:puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > 8. http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
