CentOS 5 packages in EPEL are outdated ?

[Julien C.]

Hi,

I tried using EPEL repositories as stated here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Puppet_Red_Hat_Centos

The Puppet version there is 2.6.14 or did I miss something?

My concern is: will I have reports with that version? I'm using dashboard to keep an eye on my deployment and I need to know if there is a problem without checking on each server...

Regards,

[Julien C.]

Answering to myself: no 2.6.14 doesn't send reports.

I'll have a look at yum.puppetlabs.com

[thinkwell]

Use the rpmforge repos. That version is 2.7.9

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge#head-5aabf02717d5b6b12d47edbc5811404998926a1b

[Michael Stahnke]

Use the Puppet Labs repo,

http://yum.puppetlabs.com it will always be updated. It does not
require EPEL or any other repository for functionality.

Mike

[Todd Zullinger]

Julien C. wrote:
> Answering to myself: no 2.6.14 doesn't send reports.

Is this only an issue with integrating with dashboard or are you not
getting reports at all with 2.6.14? I'm using the EPEL packages and
my reports are working AFAICT.

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[Derek J. Balling]

Is there rsync access to that repo? I'd like to mirror it behind our firewall so our machines can access it, and HTTP mirroring is so sub-optimal.

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[Michael Stahnke]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Derek J. Balling <dr...@megacity.org> wrote:
> Is there rsync access to that repo?  I'd like to mirror it behind our firewall so our machines can access it, and HTTP mirroring is so sub-optimal.
>

[ben@enlil:~]% nmap -p 873 yum.puppetlabs.com

Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-03-14 10:29 PDT
Nmap scan report for yum.puppetlabs.com (96.126.116.126)
Host is up (0.11s latency).
rDNS record for 96.126.116.126: burji.puppetlabs.com
PORT STATE SERVICE
873/tcp open rsync

YES! (:

[ben@burji:~]% tail -5 /etc/rsyncd.conf
[packages]
comment = Puppet Labs Package Repository
path = /opt/repository
exclude = apt/dists/*-*/*** apt/dists/*/.*/*** apt/*/logs/***
apt/*/conf/*** apt/*/db/***

[ben@burji:~]% ls /opt/repository
apt incoming yum

[Julien C.]

Le mercredi 14 mars 2012 01:02:53 UTC+1, Todd Zullinger a écrit :

Julien C. wrote:
> Answering to myself: no 2.6.14 doesn't send reports.

Is this only an issue with integrating with dashboard or are you not
getting reports at all with 2.6.14?  I'm using the EPEL packages and
my reports are working AFAICT.

The dashboard integration part.

I ended up using yup.puppetlabs.com and it works fine :-) 

[Todd Zullinger]

Julien C. wrote:
> The dashboard integration part.
> I ended up using yup.puppetlabs.com and it works fine :-)

Good to know. I wonder if the dashboard packages should require
puppet >= 2.7.x ?

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[Michael Stahnke]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Julien C. wrote:
>>
>> The dashboard integration part. I ended up using yup.puppetlabs.com and it
>> works fine :-)
>
>
> Good to know.  I wonder if the dashboard packages should require puppet >=
> 2.7.x ?
>

You should be able to use a 2.6.x agent and have it report to
Dashboard. Our Puppet Enterprise 1.0 - 1.2 did just that. (As did my
deployments of Puppet before I came to Puppet Labs). The version of
dashboard hasn't changed much since 1.2.0, it's been mainly some
eye-candy and bug fixes.

[Peter Bukowinski]

On Mar 16, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Michael Stahnke wrote:

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote:

Julien C. wrote:

The dashboard integration part. I ended up using yup.puppetlabs.com and it

works fine :-)

Good to know.  I wonder if the dashboard packages should require puppet >=

2.7.x ?

You should be able to use a 2.6.x agent and have it report to
Dashboard.  Our Puppet Enterprise 1.0 - 1.2 did just that. (As did my
deployments of Puppet before I came to Puppet Labs).   The version of
dashboard hasn't changed much since 1.2.0, it's been mainly some
eye-candy and bug fixes.

Indeed. I was running 2.6.x agents with Dashboard 1.2.3 until just last week when I upgraded to 2.7.11. Zero issues.

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