[Pkg-puppet-devel] Wheezy update of puppet?

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2017-06-27 20:08:07, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 12:52:52PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> On 2017-06-27 11:53:24, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> > Are you sure of this? From what I can tell agents haven't been sending
>> > YAML in a long time. If I understand things correctly, facts are sent in
>> > a format defined by the `preferred_serialization_format`, which
>> > currently (in wheezy) defaults to `pson`. It has been that way since
>> > upstream 1a89455499 (2009-06-03) which seems to have been shipped in
>> > puppet-0.24.5-rc4.
>> >
>> > My assertion, at this point, is that clients send facts in PSON, not
>> > YAML, and it's safe to disable other formats. This means, of course,
>> > that *older* clients (!) will break, but I think that's a fair move to
>> > do at this point.
>> >
>> > I will work on a package update based on that assumption.
>> 
>> And after testing this live, it turns out I was wrong: 2.7 does send
>> YAML. :( This is hardcoded in lib/puppet/configurer/fact_handler.rb as
>> b64_zlib_yaml.
>> 
>> So one thing I am considering at this stage is to simply add a patch for
>> *clients* to start sending PSON facts while disabling non-PSON facts on
>> the server. This breaks backwards compatibility, but I think this may be
>> a better approach than the status quo (abandoning 2.7) or the
>> alternative (hot-patching ruby YAML library).
>> 
>> I am concerned that the previously proposed approach of patching the
>> YAML libraries to be "safe" will be a lot of work and may be
>> incomplete.
>> 
>> I'm testing another patchset now that also updates clients, would that
>> solution be acceptable?
>
> That sounds good to me especially if it's possible to toggle this so one
> can e.g. first update all clients then disable accepting YAML on the
> server.

That was the case during our tests.

A.

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