You could also use rip's excellent parselocalconfig script to see if
the same resources will be applied. Then you'd combine that with other
more in-depth tests: http://www.devco.net/code/parselocalconfig.rb
cheers,
Walter
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 15:29, R.I.Pienaar <r...@devco.net> wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 01/06/2012 02:40 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote:
>> > The only sane way imho is to diff the catalogs.
>>
>> Maybe, but a different (not necessarily claiming "sane") choice is to
>> 1. run puppetmaster 2.8 on a non-standard port
>> 2. have each agent perform a --noop run using this masterport
>> 3. collect reports from the agents, see if they would erase your SSH
>> keys etc.
>>
>> That's basically what I like to do whenever upgrading my master.
>
> yes, you'd then also need to do a detailed audit of the reports to make
> sure that no resources are suddenly unmanaged - imagine:
>
> if $foo {
> # manage package bar
> }
>
> the behavior of that simple if changed between major versions of puppet
> some time ago and the report based approach wouldnt pick that up unless
> you very carefully audit and compare every reported resource.
>
> When I wrote the differ the puppet reports didnt have the level of detail
> required to do the audit purely on reports they do now, so if you were going
> between 2 versions of puppet that supported the detailed reporting this would
> indeed be a better approach.
>
> Still though - relationships can change, be missing etc and those owuldnt
> be in reports either.
>
> It's basically just extremely complex and I dont think there's a truly right
> answer but there should be one if the 2.7.x series is anything to go by thanks
> to the ever changing landscape of features and behaviors
>
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