On Oct 4, 2012, at 1:04 PM, llowder wrote: > On Thursday, October 4, 2012 2:49:03 PM UTC-5, Jo wrote: > On Oct 4, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Jeff McCune wrote: >>> Either just use installed, or a specific version, and then you can upgrade >>> when you are ready to. >> >> Even if you use ensure => installed, newly provisioned nodes will get >> the latest available version at the time Puppet first runs, which will >> cause issues unless you're also running a compatible Puppet master. > > > We have solved this here by only copying down the RPMs to a local repository > after they have been tested. We've had too many puppet and facter versions > cause major problems to take anything without a full testing cycle. > > That said, it's a lot of work. I'd love to see the yum/etc resources updated > to allow for < and <= versions. > > > Having that allowed as an option for all package providers would be nice. > > You should open a ticket for that if you haven't already. > > If you don't want to, let me know and I will open one.
There are a couple dozen open tickets regarding packages and repos to allow stuff like this. Probably more important would be to group all of those together and clean them up. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet projects. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
