Package Puppet for various OS's.

Guide to building Puppet agents.

Why build?

Since any reasonable modern OS have puppet in the standard repositories, why do we build the puppet software ourselves?

There are several reasons for this:

Ruby depends on dynamically loaded libraries, for example zlib and openssl. By including these into the EIS puppet package we eliminate the risk of an OS patch to break puppet
Some OSes in EIS scope does not provide puppet at all, or an older version. We can build EIS puppet for these
We get the same version of puppet on all EIS managed servers, implying that we can use the same puppet language features for all clients
The EIS puppet package installs in /opt/puppet, thus it is possible to have the OS puppet package installed simultaneously
A tailor-made package fits our requirements better

Supported Distributions

RedHat 5 x86_64, i386
RedHat 6 x86_64, i386
Solaris 9 sparc
Solaris 10 x86_64, sparc
Solaris 11.1 x86_64, sparc
Suse 9 x86_64, i386 (Uses RedHat 5 packages)
Suse 10 x86_64, i386 (Uses RedHat 5 packages)
Suse 11 x86_64, i386 (Uses RedHat 6 packages)
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x86_64

Sources

facter-1.7.1
hiera-1.2.1
puppet-3.2.2
ruby-1.8.7-p358
ruby-shadow-2.1.4
augeas-1.1.0
ruby-augeas-0.5.0
readline-6.2
openssl-0.9.8w
zlib-1.2.8

Prerequisites

The following components are used.

Tools

C compiler, usually gcc
make and gmake
perl
fpm
rpmbuild

Solaris 10 x86:

/usr/sfw/bin/gcc 3.4.3, patched with http://www.openssl.org/~appro/values.c to get usable openssl libs

Solaris 10 sparc:

/usr/sfw/bin/gcc 3.4.3

Build Instructions

build.pl will auto detect the system that you are on and build for it.

./bin/build.pl

To build without packaging

./bin/build.pl -wrap no

To build specific packages

This would build only zlib and openssl. Notice the names match the variables from settings.pl

./bin/build.pl -packages zlib128,openssl101e

Dump variables without building. Useful for debugging.

./bin/build.pl -dump

repo layout

bin/

scripts

build.pl

main script that you run

settings.pl

Default settings

settings..pl

Settings specific to that platform

builds/

Directory where builds take place. Ignored by git

builds/logs/

Logs to both of these files.

logs/build.$hostname-<pid>
logs/latest

builds/src./

Packages are extracted and built here, under <package_name>/

builds/tgzs/

Packages are downloaded here.

fpmtop/

packages/

Where built packages end up.

patches/

Patches to source code

Packaging

Solaris builds its own packages without FPM

Everything else, uses FPM.

build.pl builds everything in /opt/puppet
copies /opt/puppet to fpmtop/
copies fpmtop/init.d to fpmtop/etc/init.d
produces package

OS Notes

RedHat

Setup build environment.

yum -y install rpm rpm-devel rpm-build gcc gcc-c++ automake autoconf libtool rubygems
gem install -V fpm --no-ri --no-rdoc

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