Puppet build module

Puppet module for building tools or libraries from source if no distribution package is available.

Usage

build::install { 'top':
  download => 'http://www.unixtop.org/dist/top-3.7.tar.gz',
  creates  => '/usr/local/bin/top',
}

This function will download the source of the top command, extract it and run a ./configure, make, make install for you.

Optional parameters

pkg_folder	Name of the extracted package folder
pkg_format	Pkg-Format
pkg_extension	Pkg-Extension
extractorcmd	Overwrite pre defined extract commands
buildoptions	Additional build options for configure
rm_build_folder	Remove the build folder (true, false)

Dependencies

Puppet

Note

All paths are debian/nexenta specific. Please customise it to your needs.

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