[Pkg-puppet-devel] Proposed Puppet package changes

[Nigel Kersten]

2009/11/19 Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm at debian.org>

> Andrew Pollock <apollock at debian.org> writes:
>
> > 1) The Puppet client daemon starts automatically on install
> >
> > Given this reaches out and talks to a host called "puppet" this was
> > deemed as a security issue (Not unreasonably so IMO). Given that a
> > Puppet client generally requires some configuration before it's
> > usable, I don't think it's unreasonable to not try to start Puppet
> > automatically. I was thinking of setting START=no in
> > /etc/default/puppet to address this.
>
> That's a good idea.  Starting puppetmasterd automatically is generally
> non-destructive, but starting puppetd may cause trouble.
>
> > I thought we could roll all of these in with the package splitting that
> Stig
> > was proposing to do.
>
> Neat. :)
>
> > Unrelated, Luke seemed to think that Puppet 1.0 would be out within
> > the timeframe that Ubuntu 10.04 is going to feature freeze.  Whether
> > we want to race to ship that in Debian and Ubuntu within that
> > timeframe is another question though...
>
> It may not hurt to ask for an exception for a major release, especially
> if it is early in the freeze period. What do you think?
>

My gut feeling is that given the 0.25.x series will only contain bug fixes,
and 1.0 will also contain new features, that we may be cutting this a bit
fine, but I'm pessimistic :)



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