On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Klaus Ethgen <klaus+pup...@ethgen.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi, > > Am Do den 25. Nov 2010 um 15:04 schrieb Thomas Bendler: >> 2010/11/25 Klaus Ethgen <klaus+pup...@ethgen.de <klaus%2bpup...@ethgen.de>> >> >> > [...] >> > There are many distributions out there providing 0.24 version only. And >> > as the use of puppet is to manage many distributions, even the >> > antiquated »enterprise« distributions, I think that dropping support for >> > version lower than 0.25 is not that good idea. >> > [...] >> > >> >> But on this distributions you normaly use also the old server variant, > > No. That is the problem. The old versions had have big problems and > normally you have the master on recent system but all the old machines > installed with old versions.
Ok, lets take that as a requirement. If we take the position that at some point we're going to have to declare we only support clients of a certain vintage, what would be a reasonable version to drop client support for? >> And if you make you're own repository with actual puppet rpms you >> should upgrade the client as well I would assume. > > That would be a point. But that issue is a big issue if you have to hold > many distributions up2date. And this is also a political problem to tell > the management that you need new version of a package if the > distribution has it (management doesn't care about the version of > software unless they have to use it). So they care about your clients but not your servers? Why are they different? > > Regards > Klaus > - -- > Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ > pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <kl...@ethgen.de> > Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEVAwUBTO6CGZ+OKpjRpO3lAQoimwf+OM+CKJiZIyh2FGmOb5E7oDzSC4UlmLM+ > PuxtGGjmEGoXCON1XY9ee6usH1lMqkoaQxmf+ntEfI6ox+/J1EZ+LvVxC77PQCKw > mlmaBdwms55Scc7XSM0CGHO/DGlqeFighEtApbZYSvUcWJIzyGc7VaXTezaJncdI > fqh1FVRFY/sojXbV7xqlPsplzBb+ISjVmcDEDaG7Jp4V4/xTk+zixjPQ70VvbhYe > ErH5uXLB7D1OLdHkSsv5YXiy/FSKrUUMqVsYN2J29s4DV62U7k0ZiamzymfAI2FR > 9Wg3HtA59dpincACRN6iKcvVpIKnz7Tk6DzwkpHdl0OkczanUn2slQ== > =K4DN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Nigel Kersten - Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
