On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 6:03:50 PM UTC-7, Eric Sorenson wrote: > I love metapackages too, but short of porting yum to Windows, Mac OS X, > and > Solaris I don't see how they meet those requirements. > > That's certainly reasonable. Cross-platform is hard to do.
> If I¹m only doing a security update to facter, I shouldn¹t have to > replace a > > gigantic bundle with whatever else it pulls In. I can see you release > > management people hating this later, as well as security teams. > > So the puppet-agent package is 17 megabytes on EL7, so "gigantic" is a bit > of > an overstatement here. Agreed that the release pipeline is more > complicated, > and I can definitely understand the desire to just update the one thing > that > needs a bugfix. > > It doesn't change too often. That's not massive by today's measures. Smaller than the far more frequent big firefox updates (ugh). > > I suspect this confusion will hinder deployment the AIO packaging is > > certainly in the cons category for us. > > I really want to understand this, because it's a big deal. (My life goal > at > this point is to get as many people as possible upgraded to Puppet 4, so > anything that gets in the way of that is a problem!) There's been a bunch > of > different points in the thread, some of them about the numbering and some > about the packaging itself; what would reduce the confusion for you? > > What's hard is that you're trying to name a collection of differently numbered pieces as an aggregate version for that 'collection', which is why unifying your versioning will help a lot. Release everything puppet-4.x with a 4.x.something version identifier for your AIO bundles. That will help a lot. And don't forget to catch up all your docs to only use the 4.x terminology :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/26efcef2-45bf-47cc-a28d-67084c00dfac%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
