Issue #12179 has been updated by Pieter van de Bruggen.
While the technical challenges in implementing this are completely surmountable, I worry that this would create the same kinds of incompatibilities that were / are common in the Ruby community before / without Bundler. Specifically, you *really* want to have the same version deployed throughout your infrastructure, and you want to know that that version *works*. With any form of version range, you lose any guarantees about which version you have installed -- even if we could assert that this only applied to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org), failed promises about backwards-compatibility are dangerous when being rolled out to any part of your infrastructure. This could be effectively implemented if the master maintained a version lockfile for each resource, but I'm not sure whether that only serves to defer user surprise. ---------------------------------------- Feature #12179: Package resource should allow ensure=>">1.0" or ensure=>"<0.10" as well as 'latest', 'installed' and specific version number https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12179 Author: Steve Shipway Status: Needs Decision Priority: Normal Assignee: Randall Hansen Category: language Target version: Affected Puppet version: 2.7.9 Keywords: Branch: It would be helpful if the 'ensure' parameter to the Package resrouce could also specify 'at least version **x**' and 'no later than version **y**' as well as 'latest version', 'installed' (IE, any version) or a specific version number. EG: package { 'foo': ensure=>'>1.0' } would act as 'latest' if the current package was uninstalled or version before 1.0, but would act as 'installed' otherwise. Similarly, package { 'foo': ensure=>'<4.0' } would act as 'installed' if version is <4.0 but would produce an error otherwise. This would allow us to set a manifest to avoid packages with known problems in a certain version, but not upgrade unless necessary. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
