Puppet 4

[John Florian]

I've been curious how Fedora plans to tackle inclusion of Puppet 4, but haven't heard even a peep on the subject.  As described[1], they've moved to an all-in-one packaging process that "includes Puppet 4, both Facter 2.4 and CFacter 0.4, the latest Hiera and Mcollective, as well Ruby 2.1.5, OpenSSL 1.0.0r, and our gem dependencies."  Furthermore, "the package installs into its own area in /opt/puppetlabs".  Thus upstream is both bundling and using very Fedora-unfriendly file locations.  :(

I've long awaited having PuppetDB provided within Fedora[2] and from what I understand the bundling has hindered that effort substantially.  Are we going to lose Puppet in Fedora, or be stuck with an ever aging old release?  At home, I did the most undesirable thing and enabled the PuppetLabs repositories and love the newer products.  Meanwhile I still am waiting for PL to support Fedora 21 -- and F22 is already out!  At work I'm hesitant with either route (native Fedora packages vs. PL's repos) for fear of being stuck in an unsupported situation.  (Yes, we probably should be on a EL-ish distro if it's critical, but we use Fedora almost exclusively.)

[1] https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/4.0/reference/release_notes.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1068867

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John Florian

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