Puppet 3 and Solaris 11 IPS

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

A recent post Solaris Packages for Puppet 3.0.0-rc7, Facter 1.6.0 and Hiera 1.0.0 on a puppet mailing list caught my eye.

While gems has a nifty little package management system of it’s own, it is possible be that your machines do not have direct access to the interent so having a local IPS repo is handy. I’ll demonstrate how to add these packages to you own repository. This assumes you have already setup your own local repo.

installing-ruby-1

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Installing Ruby 1.9.3 and libyaml on Solaris 11Recent blog entries would indicate I’ve upgrade to Solaris 11 proper or Solaris 11/11 as it goes by. The upgrade was mostly driven by the fact I need to compile some software and figured I may as well have the most recent version rather than on the express edition. I’m looking into Vagrant at the moment as it might fit in with some of the automation bits I’m playing with. I’m not getting into Vagrant here just yet as there are a couple of steps I need to do to first to prep my Solaris 11 environment.For the “First cloud OS” Solaris 11 is distinctly lacking some items that you could almost say are essentials in todays cloud, Ruby. And I here the cries from the Oracle faithful we ship Ruby, Hmm Version 1.8 nearly 5 years old and only months away from EOL. I did attempt to install Vagrant with version 1.8 and gem just failed to meet the prerequisites by 0.0.1 if I recall. None the less I had committed to building a more recent version of Ruby that I’ll need for some other stuff in progress.So what do you need to build ruby 1.9.3-p125 on Solaris 11,a compiler obviously and I’m using the gcc 4.5.2 include in the Solaris 11 repo, and libyaml, otherwise we end by with this annoying message.

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Puppet 3 and Solaris 11 IPS

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