Issue with puppet6 release packages

[Morgan Rhodes]

Hi all,

While we were shipping some updated release packages earlier today, we had some issues with the puppet6 release packages found at the top level of yum.puppetlabs.com and apt.puppetlabs.com. If you installed puppet6 release packages from those locations I strongly suggest uninstalling and reinstalling to avoid inadvertent upgrades to puppet7. Those files have been updated at this point, and the affected release packages were only incorrect for a few hours earlier today.

If you want to verify whether or not your system is affected, you can check the following:

On rpm systems

• If /etc/yum.repos.d/puppet.repo exists -- you are affected. Unless you want to be subscribed to the repo with rolling updates, you should uninstall and reinstall the release package.
• If /etc/yum.repos.d/puppet6.repo exists -- you are not affected.

On deb systems

• If /etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet.list exists -- you are affected. You should uninstall the release package, manually remove /etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet.list, and reinstall the release package
• If /etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet6.list exists -- you are not affected.

Apologies for any issues caused by this, please feel free to reach out with any additional questions or concerns.

--

Morgan Rhodes

Release Engineering

mor...@puppet.com

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[Peter Meier]

> * If /etc/yum.repos.d/puppet.repo exists -- you are affected. Unless

> you want to be subscribed to the repo with rolling updates, you
> should uninstall and reinstall the release package.

> * If /etc/yum.repos.d/puppet6.repo exists -- you are not affected.

So what is the intend for rolling updates?

Given https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppet/el/7/x86_64/ does not anymore
contain the 7.0.0 release although it did for a while.

~pete

[Morgan Rhodes]

Hi Peter,

Due to some issues with the rollout of the repos yesterday, we're going to leave the rolling 'puppet' repo pointing at puppet6 until at least November 30th so we don't cause unexpected upgrades for folks while we have many people out for US holidays.