Hi, On Wednesday, April 10, 2024 11:05 CEST, "Sebastian Reitenbach" <sebas...@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 10, 2024 08:26 CEST, Giovanni Bechis <giova...@paclan.it> > wrote: > > > On 4/10/24 07:10, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > > > Hi, > > > On Tuesday, April 09, 2024 22:43 CEST, Giovanni Bechis > > > <giova...@paclan.it> wrote: > > > > > >> On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 10:17:30PM +0200, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > > >>> Since we now have a recent Puppet in ports, I started looking at how > > >>> packages are handled with Puppet. > > >>> My current trouble is that it wasn't really possible to install banches > > >>> properly: i.e. can't properly install gimp, > > >>> or auto* based on branch. Or esp, when want to install multiple of > > >>> them, it was just not possible. > > >>> For ports where branches conflict, i.e. postfix, this was working, but > > >>> had to specify exact version, and on every > > >>> upgrade bump the version .... _very_ annoying. > > >>> > > >>> Currently Puppet allows to install packages of a given version (ensure > > >>> => "X.Y.Z"), or to follow updates (ensure => "latest"). > > >>> > > >> [...] > > >>> This is just for Puppet 8. Anyone still on Puppet 7? It should be > > >>> easily ported to Puppet 7 as well. > > >>> > > >> I am on Puppet 7 and I do not have time to upgrade to Puppet 8 soon; I > > > > > > My upgrade from Puppet 7 to 8 took quite a long time. They removed a lot > > > of backward compat > > > shim, and if you have many old and partially hand made or patched modules > > > like I do, it took > > > quite a while to update all of them.... > > > > > upgrading is on my queue and I have lot of hand made modules, other then > > that, can a Puppet 7 client connect to a Puppet 8 server ? > > Yes, it worked for me, it's also recommended to upgrade master (and db) > first, then update the clients. > Depending on your modules, you may already see some fallout when just > upgrading the server, > and then even more, when upgrading the agents ;) > This is now in, but just for Puppet8, I left Puppet 7 alone for now. For anyone using Puppet8, for Puppet managed packages that have branches, you now have to use the package name including the branch, i.e. puppet%8, openldap-server%openldap, gimp%stable, jdk%1.8 etc. as you would using pkg_add cheers, Sebastian
