[CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-16 Thread Rita
we have close to 50 servers. I would like to have X11 libraries (and devel). Instead of installing them one by one on all servers, I would like to have them in a central NFS location and have my app pick them up like that. Is it possible to do this with yum/rpm ? -- --- Get your facts first, t

Re: [CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-17 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 16/09/12 22:29, Rita wrote: > we have close to 50 servers. I would like to have X11 libraries (and > devel). Instead of installing them one by one on all servers, I would like > to have them in a central NFS location and have my app pick them up like > that. Is it possible to do this with yum/rp

Re: [CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/18/2012 05:12 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > Puppet, Chef, or Bcfg2 could do it but it will probably take you a long > time to get your head around those beasts, let alone setting up the > infrastructure. > I dont know about that - it took me about 20 min to get my head around the basic 'typ

Re: [CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-18 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 18.09.2012 um 10:18 schrieb Karanbir Singh: > On 09/18/2012 05:12 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: >> Puppet, Chef, or Bcfg2 could do it but it will probably take you a long >> time to get your head around those beasts, let alone setting up the >> infrastructure. >> > > I dont know about that - it

Re: [CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-18 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 18.09.2012 um 06:12 schrieb Kahlil Hodgson: > On 16/09/12 22:29, Rita wrote: >> we have close to 50 servers. I would like to have X11 libraries (and >> devel). Instead of installing them one by one on all servers, I would like >> to have them in a central NFS location and have my app pick them u

Re: [CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-18 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 18/09/12 18:18, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 09/18/2012 05:12 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: >> Puppet, Chef, or Bcfg2 could do it but it will probably take you a long >> time to get your head around those beasts, let alone setting up the >> infrastructure. >> > I dont know about that - it took me abo

Re: [CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/18/2012 03:56 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > I had a look at Puppet early this year, planning to migrate to it from > existing Bcfg2 set up. Out of curiosity, what features motivated the migration? I use bcfg2, and the idea of using a system that doesn't feature reporting, interactive mode,

Re: [CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 09/18/2012 03:56 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: >> I had a look at Puppet early this year, planning to migrate to it from >> existing Bcfg2 set up. > > Out of curiosity, what features motivated the migration? And has anyone looked at salt (h

Re: [CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/20/2012 09:08 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > And has anyone looked at salt (http://saltstack.org/) yet? I've looked at its documentation and talked to a few users. As far as I can tell, it has fewer features than bcfg2 -- including no "diff" function. ___

Re: [CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/20/2012 04:47 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Out of curiosity, what features motivated the migration? I use bcfg2, > and the idea of using a system that doesn't feature reporting, > interactive mode, or a "diff" from the running system is... difficult. you should look at puppet, since it do

Re: [CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > you should look at puppet, since it does all of those things and a bunch > more - add in mcollective and theforeman to the mix, and you have quite > a nice provision, manage and maintain environ ( I'd say add zabbix, > while keeping an eye

Re: [CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/20/2012 03:07 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > you should look at puppet, since it does all of those things and a bunch > more So I'd log in to a client managed by puppet and type what to see a 'diff' style report indicating how the puppet master would modify the system? ___

Re: [CentOS] placing x11 libraries in an alternate location

2012-09-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/21/2012 12:02 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 09/20/2012 03:07 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> you should look at puppet, since it does all of those things and a bunch >> more > > So I'd log in to a client managed by puppet and type what to see a > 'diff' style report indicating how the puppet