Puppet Re: Kickstart and roles

[Stephen John Smoogen]

If I understood what Luke was working on with puppet, the program is
meant to be a re-engineering of cfengine to be less of an academic
testbed and more of stable product. [I might be part of the reason for
the fact it is in Ruby.. I suggested it a long time ago when Luke was
giving a training course.]

What I was wanting from a product was something that could be added
into a network management system: what is on the computer, what is
connected to the computer (and when), what is the configuration of the
computers services (stuff lower than RPMs so that all 2000 desktops
have a useless banner, point to the correct email servers, and have
the desktop menus with the correct applications set up.), and who is
on the computer and when. Where the computer is would be even better
:).

--
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator

[Orion Poplawski]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>  If I understood what Luke was working on with puppet, the program is
>  meant to be a re-engineering of cfengine to be less of an academic
>  testbed and more of stable product. [I might be part of the reason for
>  the fact it is in Ruby.. I suggested it a long time ago when Luke was
>  giving a training course.]
>   
Since the puppet and facter spec files at 
http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/rpm/ have changelog entries like:


* Tue Jan 17 2006 David Lutterkort <dlutter(a)redhat.com&gt; - 0.11.0-1
- Rebuild

perhaps we'll see it in Extras soon?  I'd like to try it out.

- Orion

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:17 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>  Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>  > If I understood what Luke was working on with puppet, the program is
>  > meant to be a re-engineering of cfengine to be less of an academic
>  > testbed and more of stable product. [I might be part of the reason for
>  > the fact it is in Ruby.. I suggested it a long time ago when Luke was
>  > giving a training course.]
>
>  Since the puppet and facter spec files at 
>  http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/rpm/ have changelog entries like:
>  
>  
>  * Tue Jan 17 2006 David Lutterkort <dlutter(a)redhat.com&gt; - 0.11.0-1
>  - Rebuild
>  
>  perhaps we'll see it in Extras soon?  I'd like to try it out. 
The packages have been submitted for review[1] and are awaiting an
entrepreneurial soul who's willing to review something written in
ruby :-)

Jeremy

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180571 and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182064

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> >>>> "JK" == Jeremy Katz
> <katzj(a)redhat.com&gt; writes: 
JK> The packages have been submitted for review[1] and are awaiting an
JK> entrepreneurial soul who's willing to review something written in
JK> ruby :-)

The first module in the dependency chain is under review.  I would
have done a review, but the submitter needs a sponsor so I can't.

Tagoh-san has shown willingness to fix some of the issues complicating
Ruby packaging, so hopefully the process will become much simpler in
the future.

 - J<

[David Lutterkort]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:17 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>  Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>  > If I understood what Luke was working on with puppet, the program is
>  > meant to be a re-engineering of cfengine to be less of an academic
>  > testbed and more of stable product. [I might be part of the reason for
>  > the fact it is in Ruby.. I suggested it a long time ago when Luke was
>  > giving a training course.]
>  > 
>  
>  Since the puppet and facter spec files at 
>  http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/rpm/ have changelog entries like: 
As Jeremy pointed out, I've been working on packaging puppet (and its
dependency facter) for FE; I keep the latest RPM's at
http://people.redhat.com/dlutter/yum/

John Mahowald is doing the review for facter - I am sure he won't object
to anybody grabbing the puppet review request
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180571) 

David