Using Librarian

Librarian is a bundler for Ruby. It handles dependency checking for you. The project for using Librarian with Puppet is called librarian-puppet and is available at http://rubygems.org/gems/librarian-puppet. To install librarian-puppet, we'll use RubyGems since no rpm packages exist in public repositories at this time. To make our instructions platform agnostic, we'll use Puppet to install the package as shown here:

[root@stand ~]# puppet resource package librarian-puppet ensure=installed provider=gem
Notice: /Package[librarian-puppet]/ensure: created
package { 'librarian-puppet':
ensure => ['2.2.1'],
}

We can now run librarian-puppet as follows:

[root@stand ~]# librarian-puppet version
librarian-puppet v2.2.1

The librarian-puppet project uses a Puppetfile to define the modules that will be installed. The syntax is the name of the module followed by a comma and the version to install. Modules may be pulled in from Git repositories or directly from Puppet Forge. You can...