Jason, Packaging gems as OS packages is pretty easy to do. You can use gem2rpm on RHEL systems or fpm (https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm) in the more general case.
-Eric On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Jason Slagle <raist...@tacorp.net> wrote: > > On 06/25/2012 09:25 AM, Kelsey Hightower wrote: > >> >> John you make a really good point. Rubygems support would be totally >> optional. One of my hopes is that once people are able to use rubygems for >> things like parser functions and report processors we start seeing more OS >> packages built from those gems. >> >> >> > More useful might be a good and easy way to create OS packages to do > plugins like this. > > That would solve some amount of the chicken and egg problem you see > bootstrapping puppet clients that need certain plugins. > > I suspect this change will allow that since it will suck plugin stuff from > a system location, so we don't have to go trying to create packages to > throw stuff in $libdir? > > Thanks! > > Jason > > > -- > 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+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/puppet-users?hl=en<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.
