Puppet 4

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:21 PM, John Florian <john.florian at dart.biz> wrote:
> 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.  L

As long as it's in "/opt", what's the problem? That's what /opt is
for! Unwielding and resolving individual components of an integrated
tool suite is often a nightmare, which is why puppet, chef, and
numerous commercial packages do the same thing.