Hi Ryan, thanks very much for all the tips - I'm not sure why I didn't get notified when you posted this reply. We got ruby and gem and rake installed from the Porting center, and we are working with our firewall team to allow outbound internet connections from our IA64 11.31 system so we can "gem install -version" Best regards, Rick
On Friday, February 28, 2014 9:11:53 AM UTC-5, Ryan Anderson wrote: > While I have not tried to get get puppet working on HP-UX, I have gotten > it to work on a number of other very old platforms by using ruby gems. If > you can get a working puppet-supported version of ruby on HP-UX, you are > most of the way there. Hopefully, you can get the ruby from a source that > already compiled and packaged it, otherwise you'll have to compile ruby on > your own, which isn't too bad if you have gnu tools from > http://hpux.connect.org.uk. Once you have ruby with gems support, the > steps are basically: > > * gem install --version <version you want, or leave out for the latest> > puppet > * This will install 'puppet' and 'facter' within the case bin directory > ruby is in > * Create /etc/puppet and /var/lib/puppet directories > * Add a working /etc/puppet/puppet.conf > * Run it as usual by hand: /your/path/bin/puppet agent -t > * Create a puppet init script and place into /sbin/init.d, with links to > it in....whatever HP-UX uses > > The benefit of this approach is you get the latest 'n greatest puppet > version, and you can even use the package resource's gem provider (may need > to sym-link /your/path/bin/gem to /usr/bin/gem') to update the gem in the > future if you so desire to keep all puppet versions the same. > > > On Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:07:36 AM UTC-6, Rick Copley wrote: >> >> Hi has anyone done any more work on puppet for HP-UX 11.31? >> >> Or can someone point me to where I can download the opensource version of >> puppet agent code so I can try to compile myself? >> >> On Friday, December 27, 2013 5:20:09 AM UTC-5, Ankit Mittal wrote: >> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> Please help me if puppet agent installation is possible on hp unix os or >>> not. >>> If it is possible please tell how to installed it >>> >>> >>> Thanks and Regrads >>> >>> Ankit Mittal >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/08bda691-685e-42f2-ba4a-2bd08680b4aa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
