Hi Matthew, I would really appreciate your experience with such build. I'm currently facing the same need to build the Puppet AIO package for ppc64le SLES 12. Therefore I would kindly ask you to share some more details about the process.
Thank you. Dne úterý 14. června 2016 21:45:16 UTC+2 Matthew Gyurgyik napsal(a): > > I have successfully built the AIO package using the > puppetlabs/puppet-agent [1] repository from source. I did this because I > needed ppc64le packages which puppetlabs does not provide. This isn't the > easiest process, but not terribly difficult if you are comfortable building > software. > > I wanted to give a presentation about this issue at puppetconf, but my > proposal was rejected. Anyways, I'd be glad to share more specifics if you > are interested. > > > [1] https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-agent > > On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 8:45:12 AM UTC-4, Matt Larson wrote: >> >> Eric et al, >> >> Thanks again for your help with this! I realize how crazy it may seem to >> want to rebuild from source. My company has become so paranoid of open >> source software due to recent events, that the infosec team now requires us >> to vet (as if that's feasible) FOSS source code before bringing in. Since >> starting this post, however, I was able to convince the team to bring in >> the PC1 repo. >> >> As someone else has suggested to me, I will have to revisit with Vanagon >> and/or the src RPM in the future. I would like to know how to build these >> though, so I'll revisit one day for sure. >> >> Cheers, >> Matt >> >> On Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 3:55:49 PM UTC-4, Eric Sorenson wrote: >>> >>> Matt, I would like to understand this better and help you adopt Puppet >>> into your environment. >>> >>> This is not a rhetorical question, but it might sound like one: Do you >>> rebuild your linux distribution from source RPMs? Because that is very >>> similar to what the AIO Puppet agent bundle is: a mini distribution with >>> the dependencies ending up in one artifact. >>> >>> People outside Puppet can (and have) successfully rebuilt AIO, and there >>> are also sucessful packaging efforts that take JUST the Puppet 4 source and >>> build a standalone RPM from it in the manner of the puppet 3 packages: >>> >>> puppet-4.2.1-3.fc24.src.rpm >>> <http://fedora.osuosl.org/linux/releases/test/24_Beta/Everything/source/tree/Packages/p/puppet-4.2.1-3.fc24.src.rpm> >>> >>> But our recommendation is to use the all-in-one obviously; it's what's >>> tested extensively and what ships in puppet enterprise. >>> >>> --eric >>> >>> On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 2:01:43 AM UTC-7, Matt Larson wrote: >>>> >>>> Sorry for not getting back soon, Dan. >>>> >>>> Good question. >>>> >>>> I work for a draconian company that only allows installing FOSS after >>>> our infosec team has vetted the source code and then built from source; an >>>> impossible hand-waving exercise, I know... but it is what it is. >>>> >>>> On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 2:51:10 PM UTC-4, LinuxDan wrote: >>>>> >>>>> First Silly Question: Why ? >>>>> What do you need to do that cannot be done with the RPM's from a >>>>> Puppetlabs repo ? >>>>> >>>>> Dan White | d_e_...@icloud.com >>>>> ------------------------------------------------ >>>>> “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) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Jun 03, 2016, at 02:44 PM, Matt Larson <dryhum...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I'm trying to create an RPM from source on a stock RHEL6-based >>>>> (CentOS6) instance, but I'm seeing errors. I also posted in >>>>> https://ask.puppet.com/question/26388/trouble-creating-a-release-rpm-from-puppetlabspuppet-source-repo/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The output actually gets pretty far along, but stops at with this >>>>> error: "install: cannot stat ext/redhat/puppet.conf: no such file or >>>>> directory". If I fix that problem by manually editing the SPEC file, I >>>>> just >>>>> get more errors, so clearly there is no need to go down a rabbit hole >>>>> since >>>>> this must work for someone else, right? >>>>> >>>>> I'm also posted in >>>>> https://ask.puppet.com/question/26388/trouble-creating-a-release-rpm-from-puppetlabspuppet-source-repo/ >>>>> >>>>> Ideas? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in Advance, >>>>> Matt >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "Puppet Users" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to puppet-users...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/8d532582-be4b-4e58-813e-0e3519043a3f%40googlegroups.com >>>>> >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/8d532582-be4b-4e58-813e-0e3519043a3f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. 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