[Pkg-puppet-devel] puppet version management

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

Anthony BERGER <anthony.berger at cea.fr> writes:

> what is the best way to manage the debian puppet versions.
> I have debian etch, lenny and next squeeze manage by puppet. (lots of
> configuration)
> My puppetmaster is running on a lenny server and can not be easily updated.
>
> what do you think is the best way to use squeeze client on the
> existing infrastructure ?
>
> i think that my etch client will not work on squeeze master ? (not
> like etch version on lenny master)
>
> can i easily repackage puppet and co ?

It looks like you could use your own repository.

You can then take the puppet version from "unstable" or "experimental",
and put it in your local repository for sqeeze, lenny and etch.

The http://wiki.debian.org/HowToSetupADebianRepository link may be of
use here.  Both "reprepro" and "mini-dinstall" will work well.

In addition, my manifests/site.pp lists which puppet agent versions I
allow to connect, like this:

,----
| case $puppetversion {
|     "0.24.8",
|     "0.25.4",
|     "0.25.5",
|     "2.6.0": {
|     }
|     default: {
|         fail("[$fqdn] Unsupported puppet agent version $puppetversion")
|     }
| }
`----


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Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
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