I've been curious how Fedora plans to tackle inclusion of Puppet 4, but haven't
heard even a peep on the subject. As described[1], they've moved to an all-in-one
packaging process that "includes Puppet 4, both Facter 2.4 and CFacter 0.4, the
latest Hiera and Mcollective, as well Ruby 2.1.5, OpenSSL 1.0.0r, and our gem
dependencies." Furthermore, "the package installs into its own area in
/opt/puppetlabs". Thus upstream is both bundling and using very Fedora-unfriendly
file locations. :(
I've long awaited having PuppetDB provided within Fedora[2] and from what I understand
the bundling has hindered that effort substantially. Are we going to lose Puppet in
Fedora, or be stuck with an ever aging old release? At home, I did the most undesirable
thing and enabled the PuppetLabs repositories and love the newer products. Meanwhile I
still am waiting for PL to support Fedora 21 -- and F22 is already out! At work I'm
hesitant with either route (native Fedora packages vs. PL's repos) for fear of being
stuck in an unsupported situation. (Yes, we probably should be on a EL-ish distro if
it's critical, but we use Fedora almost exclusively.)
[1]
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/4.0/reference/release_notes.html
[2]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1068867
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John Florian