[Puppet Users] Installing from alternat repositories with puppet module

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Benjamin Priestman wrote:
From the puppet module tool documentation, I note that it is possible to specify an alternate repository to install modules from (http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/modules_installing.html#installing-from-another-module-repository).

Other than some unresolved newsgroup questions and http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5033, I can't find any information on how to set up an alternative repository.

Am I missing something, or is this option just for future use?

On Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:12:38 UTC+1, Nan Liu wrote:

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Benjamin Priestman
<[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
specify an alternate repository to install modules from (
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/modules_installing.html#installing-from-another-module-repository).
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5033, I can't find any information
on how to set up an alternative repository.
Ryan provided a response a while back, and the ticket is probably the
best place to comment on it.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/puppet-users/ryfka7Ju8x4/QRFpMvXKkdcJ%5B1-25%5D

Thanks,

Nan

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Benjamin Priestman wrote:
The link doesn't work for me but I see some posts from Ryan about hosting
local forges. I'll focus on the ticket for that.
Yeah, he will have much better insight about the plans.
My question was more: "if there is no current support for local forges, what
is the --module_repository switch for?". Can you point it at something less
than a fully functional forge? Does a simple directory structure, which
mimcs the layout of the forge's archives, behind a web server do the trick?