On Sep 30, 3:53 pm, "Paul Lathrop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, we all generally agree that sticking to your distribution's > packages where possible is a best practice. > > In the case of Puppet; not so much. Puppet is a fast-moving target. > You will find, though, that prominent community members maintain > packages which, while "unofficial" from a distro POV, are incredibly > stable and well put-together. > > Also, roll-your-own is actually a good option for Puppet. > > In any case, that version of Puppet is not only old, it is essentially > unsupported as well, so... make the decision that is appropriate to > your needs.
I've managed to get up as far as 0.24.4 via EPEL, after being told it actually should work (I can never really tell whether anybody has actually used packages out of a repository before). EPEL itself is unofficial from a distro point of view; I'm willing to jump ship a certain amount, but I do like it to *work* when I do that :-). If there's something the community thinks is a good stable package build of current puppet versions in RPM for various rpm-based systems, maybe it could be mentioned in <http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/ wiki/DownloadingPuppet>? What's there now is EPEL (which did eventually work for me, and has me more current than what Centos 4.6/4.6 contain), and "David Lutterkort also maintains a yum repository of Puppet RPMS. ... Packages from that repository should be considered experimental and used mostly for testing." I don't mind using EPEL and wouldn't mind using a community build that the community thought well of, but the warnings on that mean I can't really afford, professionally, to have anything go wrong if I'm using it :-(. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
