Re: Puppet 4

[Oliver Falk <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

(Sorry for top-quote, but on mobile...)

Copy that and FHS states this quite clear. Personally I'm also not a huge fan of software installing to /opt.

Neither am I a fan of packaging (local) libraries in there - for a variety of reasons. I even think the Fedora packaging guidelines forbid this.

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Am 05.06.2015 um 17:17 schrieb Michael Stahnke <stahnma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Michael Stahnke <stahnma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 6:31 AM, John Florian <john.florian@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 01:12 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:21 PM, John Florian <john.florian@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I’ve been curious how Fedora plans to tackle inclusion of Puppet 4, but
> > haven’t heard even a peep on the subject.  As described[1], they’ve moved to
> > an all-in-one packaging process that “includes Puppet 4, both Facter 2.4 and
> > CFacter 0.4, the latest Hiera and Mcollective, as well Ruby 2.1.5, OpenSSL
> > 1.0.0r, and our gem dependencies.”  Furthermore, “the package installs into
> > its own area in /opt/puppetlabs”.  Thus upstream is both bundling and using
> > very Fedora-unfriendly file locations.  L
>
> As long as it's in "/opt", what's the problem? That's what /opt is
> for! Unwielding and resolving individual components of an integrated
> tool suite is often a nightmare, which is why puppet, chef, and
> numerous commercial packages do the same thing.

Packaging Guidelines for one.  My personal belief is that /opt should
only be populated by the local admin, never the distro nor a vendor.
Personally I do so using a scheme like /opt/$VENDOR/$PRODUCT/$RELEASE,
but to my knowledge the FHS has never ratified anything like that.  The
FHS seems to take a rather vague stance on /opt overall IMHO.

Could functionally explain the difference then between /usr/local and /opt? Opt has been for thrid-party/commercial/optional software for as long as I've used *NIX.  /usr/local more for the local admin to build/compile/setup what he/she would like. 

 

Just as a point of record, we do /opt/$VENDOR/$PRODUCT 

not so much with the release, but we're close to what you wanted.

 

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