[announce] puppetlabs-concat 2.0.x release deletion

[Bryan Jen]

If you aren’t using puppetlabs-concat or are still using the puppetlabs-concat module with version 1.x you don’t need to continue reading. But, if you’re using puppetlabs-concat 2.0.x...

tl;dr - we have uncovered an issue in the Puppet core that impacts the puppetlabs-concat 2.0.x series and are deleting those releases from the forge. Please downgrade your environments to use puppetlabs-concat 1.2.x. 

We recently reworked the puppetlabs-concat module to transition from an exec running a ruby script to concatenate files together to a native type (hooray!). This gave us vast performance improvements, but with the way the type was implemented we ended up running into a Puppet bug (https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-1963) 

that we can’t effectively work around with the existing code. Due to this, we’re pulling the 2.0.x release series. The Puppet bug was causing us to not properly propagate notify and subscribe metaparameters triggered by changes in puppetlabs-concat resources. This means that, for example, services subscribing to concat resources will not get restarted when the configuration file is updated.

To mitigate these issues, the puppetlabs-concat 2.0.x releases will be deleted from the forge. They will still be available for download but will not be installable using the PMT. We are still hoping to rework puppetlabs-concat to use a native type, however we don’t have a firm timeline for when that work will happen.

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[Trevor Vaughan]

Hi Bryan,

I'm sorry to hear about this as I have a lot of interest in this particular topic.

So, I have a Native Concat (with the latest version here: https://github.com/simp/pupmod-simp-concat) and Richard Clamp wrote Datacat (https://github.com/richardc/puppet-datacat) which took a similar, but different approach.

I apologize if I missed it, but is there a document that I can hit regarding the development of this new capability?

It would be great if we could argue the three approaches so that the needs that we had when we developed our versions are met in the Puppet Labs supported version.

I'm 100% behind tossing my code if someone else is going to do the heavy lifting but it needs to meet my requirements to be able to integrate it successfully.

Thanks,

Trevor

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[Bryan Jen]

FYI The puppetlabs-concat 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 releases have been deleted from the Forge. If you're using either of those versions, please downgrade to 1.2.3 as soon as possible. We have also reverted the puppetlabs-concat github master to 1.2.3, if you would like to continue using 2.x or contribute to 2.x, there is a development branch named "2.0.x" to contribute to.

[Alex Harvey]

I'm not exactly sure what's going on here but Puppet Forge seems to be still advertising the versions 2.0.0 and 2.0.1

From librarian-puppet install --verbose

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[Librarian] Resolving puppetlabs-concat (< 2.0.0) <https://forgeapi.puppetlabs.com>
[Librarian] Checking manifests
[Librarian] Module puppetlabs-concat found versions: 2.0.1, 2.0.0, 1.2.3, 1.2.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.0, 1.1.2, 1.1.1, 1.1.0, 1.1.0-rc1, 1.0.4, 1.0.3, 1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0, 1.0.0-rc1

It is necessary at the moment to explicitly request a version of < 2.0.0 in Puppetfile.

Looks like Nan Liu had the same problem here
https://github.com/echocat/puppet-nfs/pull/28

Is this something that will be fixed up soon?

[Alex Dreyer]

On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 12:55:44 AM UTC-7, Alex Harvey wrote:

I'm not exactly sure what's going on here but Puppet Forge seems to be still advertising the versions 2.0.0 and 2.0.1

From librarian-puppet install --verbose

...
[Librarian] Resolving puppetlabs-concat (< 2.0.0) <https://forgeapi.puppetlabs.com>
[Librarian] Checking manifests
[Librarian] Module puppetlabs-concat found versions: 2.0.1, 2.0.0, 1.2.3, 1.2.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.0, 1.1.2, 1.1.1, 1.1.0, 1.1.0-rc1, 1.0.4, 1.0.3, 1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0, 1.0.0-rc1

It is necessary at the moment to explicitly request a version of < 2.0.0 in Puppetfile.

It looks like librarian wasn't checking to see if a release was deleted. It appears to be fixed already in https://github.com/rodjek/librarian-puppet/commit/88efacffccdc26768542d7598f9721de2bc892cd

[Alex Harvey]

Ah, thanks very much for clearing that up.