mirroring puppet 4

[steve moulton]

Greetings,

I maintain a open source software mirror used internally at ORNL, and have been successfully mirroring Puppet for some time.  However a user asked me why he could not get Puppet 4 using the standard repository information.   After some research/fumbling around we located it at https://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/7/PC1/x86_64/, which means we were mirroring it all along.

This means to get puppet4 I need to have users instantiate a separate yum.repos.d configuration file.  

Is this the recommended approach, or is there a yum configuration that would work better for users?  I have no problem maintaining two separate yum configuration files, but users will find it confusing.

Why was puppet4 released under PC1?  Is it not ready for prime time yet?

Thanks,

  - Steve

[Christopher Wood]

That PC1 thing is intentional.

https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/4.0/reference/release_notes.html

I'm curious how it came to be that anybody needs to know the specific repository and package to install to get puppet working? In your situation I would probably have cobbler or similar install the repos on server build, or supply some kind of bootstrap rpm or shell script.

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