----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Gelnaw" <jgel...@gmail.com> > To: "puppet-users" <puppet-users@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, 1 January, 2017 10:48:49 > Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Array Iteration for Community Edition of > Puppet(3.8)
> On Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 2:41:16 AM UTC-5, R.I. Pienaar wrote: >> >> >> Puppet 3 is now dead, upgrade to Puppet 4 - it's free - and you too can >> enjoy >> features designed to solve your problem >> > > While understandable, that's something of an irritating answer-- It > underlies a problem I've felt puppet has had since the 1.x days-- Any > feature you're using can stop working with little warning, unless you > follow the puppetlabs blogs closely. > > Newer changes aren't quite as drastic as banning hyphens from a class name, > but it can still be a major pain when you have a bunch of puppet code that > used to work. :) > > It also does a nice job of completely ignoring the user's question. This isn't a case of something that stopped working, the feature is new. > > @Joe: The iteration feature is available in Puppet 3.7.x and later, but > you need to enable the "future parser"-- which is also the first step in > upgrading smoothly to puppet 4.x. Just blindly enabling future parser, especially on older 3.x releases can actively cause pretty bad side effects, unexpected changes to nodes etc First time I did it I had to reinstall the machine in question, so perhaps not the best of advise either :) -- 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/1266053538.330.1483281853349.JavaMail.zimbra%40devco.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
