I m planning to use puppet to implement organizational linux hardening policies across the linux servers.

To begin with i have downloaded.
puppet-2.7.1.tar.gz and tried some basic configuration to get start with puppet.
Now i want to roll out the puppet but before that i would like to make puppet rpm to suit my environment(as no service is created for puppet/Uninstall process is not known).

How would i accomplish the same?

My distribution are.
Distribution 1: Stripped down version of Oracle Enterprise linux optimized for running ORACLE Virtual Server(OVS)

Distribution 2:

Oracle Enterprise linux 5.2
# lsb_release -a

Well since I don't know Oracle Enterprise Linux, but know a bit about building RPMs, I can describe the way I did it.

Sure you might need to first read RPM building HOWTO at fedoraproject.org if you haven't done so already.

The next step you download some SRPM from your target Linux distribution (the one for which you're building RPM) and extract a SPEC file, which you can then use as a basis for your future custom RPM's SPEC. If you're installing a prog that requires creating system users, for example, then download a SRPM for some package that does the same and follow the way it does it.

Then you edit in the SPEC such fields as the package name, the source file name, etc., and especially the parts where it lists files it will install. The list of the files you get from your testing compile and install into some custom root.

Then you do `rpmbuild [options] yourpackage.spec` and see how it runs, then bring corrections into the SPEC in case of errors. It's actually rather simple straighforward, just first of all make sure your compilation goes fine and the compiled packages install and run fine.

I've successfully followed this pattern building quite a few packages, simple as well as complicated. After all, it is nothing but an automated compilation and install.

So far i have got this.
What could be next step?

Hi -

Q: Why do you think you need to create your own .rpm's in order to use puppet?

Q: What exactly are you trying to do with puppet, anyway?

Q: Have you looked at some of the puppet tutorials, or any of the "puppet recipes"?

* http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/

* http://bitfieldconsulting.com/puppet-tutorial

* http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine...n-tasks-puppet

* http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials...er-management/

... and, perhaps best ...

* http://www.puppetcookbook.com/

'Hope that helps

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You can do this with checkinstall. I use it for creating debs (easier to remove my own compiled work that way) but it can also create rpm's. Excellent program.
ciao,
jdk

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Thanks for the links
Ans 1) i would like to make a rpm because its easier to manage and uninstall .
Ans 2) Implement Linux hardening policies across the linux distributions.
Ans 3)Seen puppet tutorials anyway some links were new.

So you even have the specs! Then it must be pretty straightforward. Try Now `rpmbuild` is the program that builds RPMS using SPEC files without any further interference on your part. It's part of "rpmdevtools" package in Fedora, don't know how it's called in SuSE.

Did you read the link I provided though? It gives a better description of it. You can omit the long description of the SPEC file itself since your source provides a ready one.
Though if you run into build problems with that one you might need some more info, then there you go.

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