[Pkg-puppet-devel] Vendoring core modules in puppet-agent

[Jérôme Charaoui]

Hi all,

So in the wake of #1060084 I'm considering vendoring the Puppet agent 
core modules into the puppet-agent directly. This would mean 
puppet-agent would be modified and become a multi-tarball source package 
(via an appropriate uscan configuration in d/watch).

The list of vendored modules would be the same as those shipped in the 
puppetlabs packages:

- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-augeas_core
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-cron_core
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-host_core
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mailalias_core
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mount_core
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-scheduled_task
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-sshkeys_core
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-yumrepo_core
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-zfs_core
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-zone_core

This would also lead to the removal of the following packages from trixie:

- puppet-module-puppetlabs-augeas-core
- puppet-module-puppetlabs-cron-core
- puppet-module-puppetlabs-host-core
- puppet-module-puppetlabs-mailalias-core
- puppet-module-puppetlabs-mount-core
- puppet-module-puppetlabs-selinux-core
- puppet-module-puppetlabs-sshkeys-core

I think this is the most straightforward way to proceed.

The alternative would be to modify all the existing core packages to 
install in '/usr/share/puppet/vendor_modules' instead of 
'/usr/share/puppet/modules' and somehow find a way to manage this 
transition (because those packages are members of the 
update-alternatives club), in addition to the need to package and upload 
the missing modules.

Thoughts?

-- Jérôme