[Puppet Users] 0.24.5 puppetmaster, 0.25.4 puppetd, version sheer?

2010-08-31 Thread Brett Viren
This feels like a FAQ and sorry if it is, I failed to find an answer. I'd like some advice on handling backward compatibility between puppetd and puppetmaster. My puppetmaster is at v0.24.5 using Debian Lenny packages. I tried to bring up a puppetd client v0.25.4 (Ubuntu 10.04 packages) but fail

[Puppet Users] Re: Offtopic: package inventory tracking

2009-01-05 Thread Brett Viren
John Philips writes: > Anybody know of such a system, or are willing to share your > home-brewed solution? Maybe OCS Inventory is worth looking at: http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/ Last I looked at it (few years ago) it focused on hardware info but did collect package versions. It also had a

[Puppet Users] Re: Experiences with RHN Satellite?

2009-03-09 Thread Brett Viren
PeterBurkholder writes: > FWIW, we'll be looking about 50 systems that need to be > managed, and we may not have to pay for server itself ($13.5K) just > for the system subscriptions ($200 each). Note that the Satellite server code has been open sourced so I'm not sure why they still charge so