puppet in epel

[Michael Di Domenico]

does anyone know who or how puppet gets into epel?  the packages for puppet/facter in epel are woefully out of date.

[Poil]

Hello ?

Don't use EPEL, use the official Puppet repository

Le 05/04/2018 à 16:27, Michael Di Domenico a écrit :

does anyone know who or how puppet gets into epel?  the packages for puppet/facter in epel are woefully out of date.

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[Ian Mortimer]

On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 07:27 -0700, Michael Di Domenico wrote:

> does anyone know who or how puppet gets into epel?  the packages for
> puppet/facter in epel are woefully out of date.

There's a request in bugzilla for an update to facter but hasn't had a
response yet:

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285600

No corresponding request for puppet that I can find.
 
You could create a bugzilla request for puppet but Poil's suggestion to
use the official Puppet repository seems like the best option.


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[Michael Watters]

Most likely there are dependencies which would also need to be updated and Redhat likes to avoid breaking things in a RHEL release.  If you really need the latest version of puppet installed the packages from the official repos work fine.

[jcbollinger]

Note that RedHat has packages for Fedora up through Puppet 4.10, so it's not so far behind there.  Very likely one of the reasons these are not making it into EPEL is indeed the dependencies.  In particular, the EL6 Ruby version is pinned at 1.8.7, which Puppet has not supported for a long time, and the EL7 Ruby version is pinned at 2.0.0, which is behind what Puppet recommends even for Puppet 4.  Since you want a more recent Ruby to run the latest Puppet, I'm inclined to agree that the packages from Puppet, Inc. are your best alternative at this point.

John