Fixing Puppet in Fedora/EPEL

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Michael Stahnke <stahnma at puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> Puppet in the Fedora/EPEL ecosystem is a bit wonky currently.
>
> I'd really like to fix it.
>
> Problems:
> * Fedora 17 (and higher) ships with Ruby 1.9.x and Puppet 2.7.x.  2.7.x is not
>   100% compatible with 1.9.3. The number of issues in this space continues to
>   grow.

> * Puppet 3.0.x is out and is the fully supported branch from Puppet Labs and
>   supports Ruby 1.9.3+ fully.

>
> My proposal would be the following:
> * Move EPEL 6, Fedora >= 17 to use Puppet 3.0.

What about ruby on RHEL6? Will puppet 3.0 work with RHEL6's ruby
1.8.7, or do you expect RHEL6 users to replace the distro native ruby
stack ?



  -jf