Re: [Puppet Users] Thoughts on dropping 0.24.x client support in Puppet 2.7?

2010-11-25 Thread Marek Dohojda
Personally I kinda hope that Puppet can change the versioning system. So that it is easier to know which version is major and which minor. As far as how far back support should go, I would say that client/server should be at least 1 major version behind. ---

[Puppet Users] Re: Problem starting puppetd for the first time (Could not create resources ...)

2010-11-25 Thread Terry
On Nov 25, 11:14 am, Terry wrote: > Hi,,, > > I have a strange problem when installing puppet client 2.6.3 on a > node. > I have installed facter-1.3.8-4 and  ruby-1.8.6-8. > > When I start puppetd as a normal user everything behaves normally. > A .puppet directory is installed under $HOME and s

[Puppet Users] Re: Thoughts on dropping 0.24.x client support in Puppet 2.7?

2010-11-25 Thread donavan
On Nov 24, 3:50 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: > I mentioned this in an earlier thread, but here's a dedicated one. > > We made a big change between 0.24.x and 0.25.x where we moved from > XMLRPC to REST. > > How do people feel about us dropping all XMLRPC support from 2.7.x, > such that it only support

Re: [Puppet Users] vim syntax highlight link broken?

2010-11-25 Thread James Turnbull
Lars Francke wrote: > Awesome! I didn't even know there was an official syntax file. I've > been using the one from vim.org from 2007(?). Thanks for maintaining > this. > >> https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/tree/master/ext/vim/ >> >> We should remove the one on puppetlabs.com. > > It would be

Re: [Puppet Users] vim syntax highlight link broken?

2010-11-25 Thread Lars Francke
Awesome! I didn't even know there was an official syntax file. I've been using the one from vim.org from 2007(?). Thanks for maintaining this. > https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/tree/master/ext/vim/ > > We should remove the one on puppetlabs.com. It would be really great if you could either a

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing a "complex" directory structure

2010-11-25 Thread Lars Francke
I don't understand how I'd convert the definitions from my original mail into virtual resources. Simplified: $disks = ['/a', '/b'] define foo() { file { "${name}/foo": } } foo { $disks: } define bar($path) { file { "${name}/foo/${path}": require => Foo[$name], } } bar { $disks: path

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dies on Connect Error

2010-11-25 Thread James Turnbull
Douglas Garstang wrote: > I don't know if this is a known, documented bug, but in v2.6.1, the > puppetd daemon will just completely shut down if it isn't able to > connect to the puppetmaster. Rather annoying. Is this fixed in a newer > release? If not, I'll have to write a wrapper script, or put i

[Puppet Users] Puppet Dies on Connect Error

2010-11-25 Thread Douglas Garstang
I don't know if this is a known, documented bug, but in v2.6.1, the puppetd daemon will just completely shut down if it isn't able to connect to the puppetmaster. Rather annoying. Is this fixed in a newer release? If not, I'll have to write a wrapper script, or put it into cron. Doug. -- You rec

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet on Windows

2010-11-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:48 AM, thbe wrote: > On 28 Okt., 15:09, Kikanny wrote: >> Hmmm...I've made some progress. There seemed to be some problems with >> Ruby 1.9.1. So I reverted back to Ruby 1.8.7 and followed the steps >> again as outlined >> inhttp://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wik

Re: [Puppet Users] Thoughts on dropping 0.24.x client support in Puppet 2.7?

2010-11-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi, > > Am Do den 25. Nov 2010 um 15:04 schrieb Thomas Bendler: >> 2010/11/25 Klaus Ethgen > >> >> > [...] >> > There are many distributions out there providing 0.24 version only. And >> >

Re: [Puppet Users] Thoughts on dropping 0.24.x client support in Puppet 2.7?

2010-11-25 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Do den 25. Nov 2010 um 15:04 schrieb Thomas Bendler: > 2010/11/25 Klaus Ethgen > > > > [...] > > There are many distributions out there providing 0.24 version only. And > > as the use of puppet is to manage many distributions, even the > > a

Re: [Puppet Users] Dependencies between custom facts

2010-11-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Paul Nasrat wrote: > On 20 November 2010 16:42, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Steve Atwell wrote: >>> I need to write a custom fact that depends on the value of another >>> custom fact in a different file.  For example: >>> >>> # foo.

Re: [Puppet Users] Thoughts on dropping 0.24.x client support in Puppet 2.7?

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas Bendler
2010/11/25 Klaus Ethgen > > [...] > There are many distributions out there providing 0.24 version only. And > as the use of puppet is to manage many distributions, even the > antiquated »enterprise« distributions, I think that dropping support for > version lower than 0.25 is not that good idea. >

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet on Windows

2010-11-25 Thread thbe
On 28 Okt., 15:09, Kikanny wrote: > Hmmm...I've made some progress. There seemed to be some problems with > Ruby 1.9.1. So I reverted back to Ruby 1.8.7 and followed the steps > again as outlined > inhttp://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Windows. > Installed an additional gem call

Re: [Puppet Users] Thoughts on dropping 0.24.x client support in Puppet 2.7?

2010-11-25 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, Am Do den 25. Nov 2010 um 0:50 schrieb Nigel Kersten: > We made a big change between 0.24.x and 0.25.x where we moved from > XMLRPC to REST. > > How do people feel about us dropping all XMLRPC support from 2.7.x, > such that it only support

[Puppet Users] Problem starting puppetd for the first time (Could not create resources ...)

2010-11-25 Thread Terry
Hi,,, I have a strange problem when installing puppet client 2.6.3 on a node. I have installed facter-1.3.8-4 and ruby-1.8.6-8. When I start puppetd as a normal user everything behaves normally. A .puppet directory is installed under $HOME and ssl key is installed under $HOME/.puppet/ssl.. I si

[Puppet Users] User management

2010-11-25 Thread Johan Sunnerstig
Hi people. After some reading, I think I have some sort of coherent thought about how to handle users and groups, being a first time Puppet user though I figured I'd ask for some criticism before I go ahead. I'll use the /modules/user module as per the BP-doc, and store all the users and groups

Re: [Puppet Users] Thoughts on dropping 0.24.x client support in Puppet 2.7?

2010-11-25 Thread Benjamin Kite
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> One of the bits of feedback I have had from various folks out in the wider > world is that (right or wrong) they already feel that Puppet has a pretty fast > upgrade cycle and a very poor backward compatibility story. > >> My firm would be

Re: [Puppet Users] facter fact catalog?

2010-11-25 Thread Nick
Thank you Paul, and thank you everyone else for your replies. Presumably fact values can be broken down into two categories: a) those values which exist in Factor's code base somewhere b) those values which are obtained from elsewhere Those in a) can be deduced just by looking at the Factor co

Re: [Puppet Users] Thoughts on dropping 0.24.x client support in Puppet 2.7?

2010-11-25 Thread Cosimo Streppone
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:50:30 +0100, Nigel Kersten wrote: I mentioned this in an earlier thread, but here's a dedicated one. We made a big change between 0.24.x and 0.25.x where we moved from XMLRPC to REST. How do people feel about us dropping all XMLRPC support from 2.7.x, such that it onl

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: file content

2010-11-25 Thread Arnau Bria
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:13:37 +0100 Stefan Schulte wrote: Hi all, I think I get it... class File default was: File { ensure => prsent, mode=> 644, owner => root, group => root, } notice prsent... and not present. ^ > I dont think its working

Re: [Puppet Users] Thoughts on dropping 0.24.x client support in Puppet 2.7?

2010-11-25 Thread Peter Meier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> [...] >> How do people feel about us dropping all XMLRPC support from 2.7.x, >> such that it only supported Puppet clients 0.25.x and higher? >> [...] >> > > Will it be possible to run two puppet server instances (2.6.x and 2.7.x) on > the same hos

Re: [Puppet Users] Thoughts on dropping 0.24.x client support in Puppet 2.7?

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas Bendler
2010/11/25 Nigel Kersten > [...] > How do people feel about us dropping all XMLRPC support from 2.7.x, > such that it only supported Puppet clients 0.25.x and higher? > [...] > Will it be possible to run two puppet server instances (2.6.x and 2.7.x) on the same host on different ports? If yes, g