On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Robie Basak <robie.ba...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:23:37AM -0500, John Moser wrote: >> OK further research yields that Debian is not updating Sid due to >> feature freeze for Testing. However, Mathisain notes this: >> >> On the other hand, the master packaging branch at >> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-puppet/puppet.git;a=summary >> yields a working set of puppet 3.0.2 debs, they're just not tagged with >> a debian release. Feel free to use that until we can upload to sid. >> >> Can we see this imported to 13.04? > > What would the implications be of an update to puppet 3 in the archive > for installations using older LTS releases running older versions of > puppet? Can an agent continue to run 2.7 and be served by a 3 > puppetmaster? > > There is some documentation for this. > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/upgrading.html says "Older agent nodes > can get catalogs from a newer puppet master. The inverse is not always > true.". So it sounds like it should be fine. If we provide puppet 3 in > 13.04, then providing that users upgrade their puppetmaster to 13.04, > then everything will work smoothly, right?
As long as the server version is >= the client version, things are OK. If the client version is > the server version, things can go wrong very quickly. 'Wrong' tends to mean 'clients will fail to get updates'. > > I'm just trying to identify if there are any cases where it could be > painful for users to find that puppet has been updated, for any > reasonable upgrade path. Are there any complications that I haven't > thought of, or would everything be fine? I run puppet on thousands of nodes. If you updated puppet in the middle of an LTS; I would be *pissed* as all hell. > > Robie > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
