Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> They are correct but they were not before. What I seem to have
> discovered that I didn't know before is that `yum clean all` needs to be
> told to --enablerepo=epel-testing in order to clean the cache for that
> repo (yes, it's documented but only when you bother to look it
Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Are you sure your repo configs are correct? I don't see a .el4 facter
> package in the epel-testing repos for EL5:
>
They are correct but they were not before. What I seem to have
discovered that I didn't know before is that `yum clean all` needs to be
told to --enabler
Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> I have EPEL itself enabled as one of my repos but epel-testing is
> generally disabled - enabled only when I need specific things from
> it.
That works.
> Currently epel-testing for RHEL5/CentOS5 appears to have a wrong
> package in it for facter (1.5.5-1.el4 vs .el5). I s
Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Generally, the most up to date packages are in epel-testing. If you
> enable epel-testing, you'll also want epel enabled. At the moment,
> that will get you the latest stable releases of puppet and facter
> (well, facter is at 1.5.5 instead of 1.5.6 because 1.5.6 doesn't
Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> What's the correct yum repo to use for installing Puppet & Facter on
> RHEL5 and Centos5?
>
> I used to get them from the dlutter-rhel5 repo but this seems to be
> massively out of date now - latest version of puppet-server in there
> is 0.24.5-1.el5 and facter 1.5.4-1.el5.
Hi
> What's the correct yum repo to use for installing Puppet & Facter on
> RHEL5 and Centos5?
>
> I used to get them from the dlutter-rhel5 repo but this seems to be
> massively out of date now - latest version of puppet-server in there is
> 0.24.5-1.el5 and facter 1.5.4-1.el5.
>
> In Epel I see
I use the RPM's from plain EPEL for both RHEL 4 and 5, on both i386
and x86_64, and so far they've worked great.
If you are concerned about the packages, I would recommend setting up
a little test environment with a puppetmaster and a few clients, and
just test it out.
BR.
Rune Stensø
On 12 Jun,
