Most likely there are dependencies which would also need to be updated and Redhat likes to avoid breaking things in a RHEL release. If you really need the latest version of puppet installed the packages from the official repos work fine.
On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 12:26:19 PM UTC-4, Michael Di Domenico wrote: > > does anyone know who or how puppet gets into epel? the packages for > puppet/facter in epel are woefully out of date. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/83b11bd0-67fe-4885-8f62-1833ca8c0404%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
