hiera-puppet no longer installs

[Thomas Hallgren]

I'm unable to install hiera-puppet. Seems it requires hiera ~> 1.0.

 $ gem install hiera-puppet

 ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::DependencyError)

     Unable to resolve dependencies: hiera-puppet requires hiera (~> 1.0)

Hiera installs, but version 0.3.0

 $ gem install hiera

 Fetching: hiera-0.3.0.gem (100%)

 Successfully installed hiera-0.3.0

[Matthaus Owens]

Once Hiera-Puppet moved out of rc, it seemed best to move its hiera
dependency from 1.0.0rc to 1.0, to ensure that those using
Hiera-puppet get the non-RC version of hiera when it's available.
Until Hiera 1.0.0 is released, you can install Hiera-puppet alongside
hiera using the --pre flag to gems.
`gem install --pre hiera-puppet`. Currently this will bring in Hiera
1.0.0rc4 and Hiera-puppet 1.0.0rc3 (which is identical to Hiera-puppet
1.0.0 except for the dependency change). If you want Hiera-puppet
1.0.0 still, you can then run `gem install --force hiera-puppet -v
1.0.0`.

Hiera-puppet 1.0.0 requires changes that were made to Hiera prior to
and during the 1.0.0 rc series, so running hiera-puppet 1.0.0
alongside hiera 0.3.0 will not behave as expected.

This should only affect gem installs, if you are installing
hiera-puppet using our yum or apt repos with our development
repositories enabled hiera-puppet should install fine.

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Matthaus Litteken
Release Manager, Puppet Labs

[Thomas Hallgren]

Thanks for the info.

In our case it affected our puppet manifests where we had:

package { 'hiera-puppet':
ensure => installed,
provider => $gem_provider,
}

We prefer to use the latest release when possible.