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+Some random notes about Puppet on Windows.
+
+NOTE: these are some instructions which worked at one point in time.
+They probably became outdated almost as soon as they were written.
+At time of writing, we do not have any puppet-on-Windows setups in regular use.
+
+
+CREATING A PUPPET BINARY PACKAGE FOR WINDOWS
+============================================
+
+These instructions will create a zip file with a ready-to-go puppet
+installation to be extracted under c:\puppet .
+
+ - Install Ruby from http://rubyinstaller.org/ .
+   Use Ruby 1.8.7, install to c:\puppet\Ruby187 .
+
+ - In Ruby command prompt:
+   gem install rake rspec mocha win32-process win32-dir rack
+
+ - Download http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/61461/sys-admin-1.5.2-x86-mswin32-60.gem
+   to some working directory (outside of c:\puppet)
+
+ - In Ruby command prompt:
+   gem install sys-admin-1.5.2-x86-mswin32-60.gem
+
+ - git clone git://github.com/reductivelabs/facter.git
+
+ - In Ruby command prompt:
+   cd facter
+   rake gem
+   gem install pkg/facter-1.5.7.gem
+
+ - Download the desired puppet version (e.g. http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-2.6.1rc1.tar.gz)
+   and extract to some working directory (outside of c:\puppet)
+
+ - In Ruby command prompt:
+   cd puppet-2.6.1
+   rake create_gem
+   gem install pkg\puppet-2.6.1.gem
+
+ - Manually create these directories:
+    c:\puppet\var
+
+ - If there are syntax errors about: `uninitialized constant Fcntl::F_SETFD (NameError)',
+   then comment out the lines causing the errors.
+