I've had quite a bit of success with Puppet 2.7 on 32-bit RHEL 4, specifically: - Puppet 2.7.3 - Facter 1.6.2 - Ruby Enterprise 1.8.7 - Older EPEL packages for Augeas, and other dependencies , active mirrors with signed packages are still floating about.
As ruby enterprise is now discontinued, i'm looking to move off next major upgrade, however you should be able to build the standard Ruby 1.8.7 + ruby gems from source to have quite a feature rich RHEL4 Puppet 2.7 install that is stable, i'm managing (nursing) about 30 servers with it now along side my newer RHEL 5/6 estate, and the only issue I've hit is the odd stale client which an agent restart fixes, initital testing of mcollective 2 also is promising so far. I've also found that building a dedicated ruby install for Puppet, and not messing with the ruby versions that ship with the OS have helped keep things clean and be less off a pain when it comes to gem dependencies in my environment, of course YMMV. Cheers, K On Thursday, August 16, 2012 5:53:39 AM UTC+1, Jemmorey wrote: > > Jason, > > I was able to compile puppet via the spec file included in the source up > to version 2.7.5 on RHEL4 (32 and 64-bit). I can't remember the issues I > had with 2.7.6-9 right now, but it had to do with the ancient ruby (1.8.1). > I did grab the requisite dependencies (augeas-libs, ruby-augeas, facter) > from the EPEL. I haven't had any major issues with that version using the > default system ruby. Makes me feel better that someone else has to support > EOL relics as well. Hope this helps. > > Jordan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/pXVMrU5zhm8J. 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.
