Hi John, The top-level release packages are actually symlinks to release packages that *are* inside their respective repositories. When we publish new release packages, we update those links so that users don't have to bump version numbers in any tooling that installs these repositories.
Thanks! On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 6:21 AM jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote: > > > On Monday, April 22, 2019 at 4:31:09 PM UTC-5, Molly Waggett wrote: >> >> 1. Release packages (for all active streams) will live at the top level >> only. >> >> This change only affects yum.puppet.com (and nightlies.puppet.com/yum), >> giving us consistency with the layout on apt.puppet.com. Currently, yum >> release packages live inside their corresponding repo directory, e.g. >> yum.puppet.com/puppet6/puppet6-release-fedora-28.noarch.rpm >> <http://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppet6/puppet6-release-fedora-28.noarch.rpm>. >> THESE WILL BE REMOVED. >> >> Here are some examples of where you will be able to find release packages: >> >> Old: yum.puppet.com/puppet6/puppet6-release-el-7.noarch.rpm >> >> New: yum.puppet.com/puppet6-release-el-7.noarch.rpm >> >> > It is conventional for repository release packages to be inside their > repositories so that repository configuration updates can be published and > applied via the same mechanism that is used for ordinary packages. Even if > this is a capability that Puppet rarely uses, it seems ill-considered to > give it up. The desire for consistency could be as well served by moving > the other release packages into their repos, or by making the release > packages consistently available in both places. > > > John > > -- > 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/c711eeca-239c-4022-8f4b-55f9ea577c8d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/c711eeca-239c-4022-8f4b-55f9ea577c8d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- *Molly Waggett* she/her/hers Release Engineer @ Puppet, Inc. -- 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/CAFOE68B72vTBnDab8dwFORFZusf9Cr1d4BqHGm9SxEi9oiW-Bg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
