[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#774643: Lacking support of exported resources

[micah]

Hello!

bertagaz <bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org> writes:

> When upgrading a puppet master from Wheezy to Jessie, it's not possible
> anymore to use the `storeconfigs` option, which is required for manifests to
> use exported resources. This lead to have to rewrite the manifests to get
> rid of them, often in a ugly and hackish way.

Are those modifications available anywhere? It would be nice to try and
incorporate them in some shared modules!

> That's because in puppet 3.x, a switch has been made upstream from
> activerecord to puppetdb as a backend for catalog storage and searching.

Hmm, I think that is not true. Activerecord storedconfigs still work,
they are somewhat deprecated, and I believe removed in puppet 4, but
I know people who have used storeconfigs in 3.6.2.

Additionally, I've looked through the release notes[0] and I could find
nothing that said that it was removed.

> It seems that puppetdb is not packaged into Debian at the moment. There's
> an open RFP for it at #673515, and upstream has a Debian package at
> apt.puppetlabs.com.
>
> This looks like a regression, which either need to be fixed before the
> Jessie release, or documented in the release notes, but the last option
> will probably bring a lot of hassle to sysadmins.

What kind of errors are you getting that lead you to this conclusion?

Also - I think that moving modules to make storedconfigs 'optional' is a
very good thing to do. Many people use masterless puppet setups which
cannot use storeconfigs and would benefit from any work that is done
there!

micah

0. https://docs.puppetlabs.com/release_notes/
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