On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 17:29, Jeff Sheltren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Michael Stahnke <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm not sure it's upstream hurting users. EPEL won't move the >> version of cfengine or puppet (although we have moved puppet in the >> past) for the EL4/5 systems. Thus the choice is either get the latest >> from epel and rebuild the latest on the older systems, or the opposite >> try and build the old package on the newer EL version. Either way, >> it's a dis-service to everybody involved because the packages are not >> in step with each other across distros. This often leads to people >> complaining about EPEL and then rolling their own packages or tarball >> or gem installations into their environment. >> >> The reason EPEL normally doesn't move these packages is that they >> often times do introduce API/ABI breakage, so I'm not sure what the >> best answer is, but I know I would still want all of my servers to be >> managed through the same policies and at the same client version so I >> have the same features available to everything inside my >> infrastructure. >> >> stahnma >> > > In the case of cfengine, v2 vs. v3: v2 is no longer supported at all > from upstream. However, I'm pretty sure that v2 clients will work > fine with a v3 server (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). > Because v2 is no longer supported upstream I'm hard pressed to find a > reason to support it in EPEL6 onwards.
No they are completely different in the same way that usually puppet breaks support. A v2 box is not going to understand 'promises' or other syntax. I doubt very much v2 will get any more support. Cfengine 3 is where Mark Burgess is wanting to get corporate support as he has a business behind it. The C2 code is a mess.. listening to Luke Kanies it was the reason that he didn't fork it but just went with a fresh start with puppet. -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
