Puppet version bump

Alec Warner antarus at google.com
Wed Feb 6 00:58:34 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:50 PM, John Moser <john.r.moser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 02/05/2013 07:45 PM, Ryan Tandy wrote:
>>
>> John Moser <john.r.moser <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> 2.  Convince Ubuntu to put the newest Puppetmaster in Backports.  I am
>>> not advocating this either.
>>
>>
>> Slightly off-topic, but FWIW I would be happy to see raring's puppet
>> (whatever version that ends up being) in precise-backports.
>> lucid-backports has puppet 2.7 and that made my life a LOT easier since
>> my puppetmaster runs precise and I am using some recent modules. Having
>> backports available but not installed by default is really quite nice.
>> Furthermore it's quite likely that at some point I'll have some clients
>> running a newer Ubuntu than the puppetmaster, and it would be great to
>> be able to support it just by upgrading puppetmaster to a backports
>> version.
>>
>>
>
> http://apt.puppetlabs.com/
>
> While we're at it, why is etckeeper stuff in the package?  The Puppetlabs
> guys said because it's in Debian's package and "Debian packagers are
> fruitbats", so they're imitating "for compatibility."

I know Nigel Kirsten and Andrew Pollock, so if there is stuff wrong in
the debian packaging I am happy to chat with them.

-A


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