On 16 August 2012 00:41, Jason Antman <ja...@jasonantman.com> wrote:
> by the same system. That list is about 95% RHEL/Cent 5 or 6, but there's a > few RHEL4 and SLES9 machines on the "must have" list. As upgrades are very > unlikely, I'd like to be on the newest version possible - ideally, 2.7.12+ > on the master so I can leverage puppetDB. > > Is anyone out there running new-ish puppet (2.7, or else 2.6) on such > ancient beasts? If so, can anyone point me at sources for the packages, and > dependencies? Or perhaps have spec files to share? > > I'd like to say I can spend the time to build and test puppet and all the > dependencies, but alas, that is very far from the case. > > The big hurdle is getting a modern ruby running on the older release. Then any version of puppet/facter should work Here's a post from 3 years ( https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/puppet-users/PeZ3ffCnW6I[1-25]) ago of me giving instructions to get ruby/puppet running on VMWare ESX 3.5 which was derived from RHEL 3. Shoud work for RHEL 4 You may be struggling to find a fully functional puppet tool chain for an older RHEL - some work may be required Regards John -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
