David Juran wrote: > To be honest, I'm not sure. I know it's been discussed on this list > back and forth a few times but I can't recall the outcome so I just > pulled the above FAQ out from google... Can anyone else on the list > recall?
Heh, I have similarly vague recollections. Glad to not be the only one. :) > I wish there was an easy way of doing this, but you'll find the > SRPM:s of MRG in > http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/RHEMRG/SRPMS/ Thanks for the link. (I did stumble onto that myself after asking). So it looks like MRG is shipping facter-1.5.2-2 and puppet-0.24.6-3. Neither package is newer than January 2009, so they are not getting much love in MRG it would seem. (The upstream release dates are September 2008 for facter-1.5.2 and October 2008 for puppet-0.24.6, for what it's worth.) I certainly don't want to make any RHEL folks lives (or jobs) more difficult, but I can't see the value in holding all EPEL user on such ancient and unmaintained versions of facter and puppet. When David Lutterkort was maintaining facter/puppet in EPEL, they were updated much more frequently. This was before puppet had reached as many users as it has now, to be fair. We've slowed down a bit on pushing updates, even as upstream continues to forge ahead with new versions. But still, more users clamor for updates than for not, it seems to me. Hardly a few days go by that I don't get mail in my inbox asking "where's puppet 2.6 in EPEL?" (Or 2.7 now.) If we stuck on 0.24.6, I doubt many puppet users would bother using EPEL at all. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In their enthusiasm for frequent travel through the Doors of Perception, far too many get hung up on the doorknob. -- M. Domalgowski
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