I've been curious how Fedora plans to tackle inclusion of Puppet 4, but haven't 
heard even a peep on the subject.  As described[1], they've moved to an 
all-in-one packaging process that "includes Puppet 4, both Facter 2.4 and 
CFacter 0.4, the latest Hiera and Mcollective, as well Ruby 2.1.5, OpenSSL 
1.0.0r, and our gem dependencies."  Furthermore, "the package installs into its 
own area in /opt/puppetlabs".  Thus upstream is both bundling and using very 
Fedora-unfriendly file locations.  :(

I've long awaited having PuppetDB provided within Fedora[2] and from what I 
understand the bundling has hindered that effort substantially.  Are we going 
to lose Puppet in Fedora, or be stuck with an ever aging old release?  At home, 
I did the most undesirable thing and enabled the PuppetLabs repositories and 
love the newer products.  Meanwhile I still am waiting for PL to support Fedora 
21 -- and F22 is already out!  At work I'm hesitant with either route (native 
Fedora packages vs. PL's repos) for fear of being stuck in an unsupported 
situation.  (Yes, we probably should be on a EL-ish distro if it's critical, 
but we use Fedora almost exclusively.)

[1] https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/4.0/reference/release_notes.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1068867

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John Florian

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