[katello-devel] Puppet 2.7 or Puppet 3.1 for RHEL6

[Bryan Kearney]

On 03/21/2013 10:21 AM, Dominic Cleal wrote:
> On 21/03/13 13:59, Sam Kottler wrote:
>> On 03/21/2013 09:35 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>>> I find that Foreman use in code: require 'puppet' which means that
>>> I have to package puppet for ruby193. And if I will make change,
>>> the question is how big change should I do? Currently rhel6 have
>>> puppet 2.6. I can build either puppet 2.7, 3.0 or 3.1. Here is list
>>> of backward incompatible changes:
>>> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3/reference/whats_new.html#backwards-incompatible-changes-in-3x
>>
>>
>>
>>> Since we will in near future support only Fedora 18 + RHEL6 with SC
>>> and Fedora 18 use puppet 3.1, I think we should use puppet 3.1.
>>
>> +1. There are a lot of bugs for running under 1.9.3 that are fixed in
>> 3.0+.
>
> Indeed +1.  Puppet 3 follows semver too, so it'll be much easier to
> rebase throughout the 3.x series without worrying about
> compatibility-breaking changes.
>
> 2.6's support in the community has mostly vanished and continued
> security support is doubtful.
>
+1 to the latest which is in Fedora.

-- bk