[Puppet Users] Installing a tarball using Puppet

You have 2 options. You can put what you did above in a shell script, and
thenuse a file to push the tarball and the shell script, then exec to run
the script.

The BETTER option is to use fom or whatever and build a package (rpm, deb,
whatever) and then install that using a package resource from a local repo.

What llowder said. But he meant fpm, not fom:

https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

Indeed, sorry about that. Too much blood in the caffeine stream as I typed.

For example:

file {"/usr/local/src/suphp-0.7.1.tar.gz":
owner => "root",
group => "root",
mode => 0775,
ensure => present,
source => "puppet:///modules/lamp/suphp-0.7.1.tar.gz",
notify => Exec["unpack suphp"]
}

exec { "unpack suphp":
command => "tar xf /usr/local/src/suphp-0.7.1.tar.gz &&
chown -R root:root /usr/local/src/suphp-0.7.1*",
cwd => "/usr/local/src",
refreshonly => true,
notify => Exec["install suphp"]
}

exec { "install suphp":
cwd => "/usr/local/src/suphp-0.7.1",
command => "/usr/local/src/suphp-0.7.1/configure
--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config && make &&
make install",
logoutput => true,
refreshonly => true,
}

Thank you very much to everyone. It is very useful.
Sincerely,

- Ridha