Issue #16729 has been updated by Robert Rothenberg.
Jeff McCune wrote: > Does the value we're providing to our users significantly outweigh the risk > we're passing along? If so, then we did fine and should keep doing it, if > not, then we have a pretty clear indicator that replacing Puppet 2.7 with 3.0 > was a mistake because the reward doesn't justify the risk. The effects of the way Puppet 3.0 has been published are that people who used the repo for their deployments have to put in a lot of work to prevent Puppet from upgrading (either creating their own repos, or various workarounds to keep tell yum as well as deployment systems such as Cobbler not to upgrade the module). A very simple and quick fix would be to create an alias package such as "puppet2.7" or "puppet3", so that users of the repo can adjust the the name of the package that they use. ---------------------------------------- Bug #16729: When using the puppetlabs repositories, `yum install puppet` should be safe. https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16729#change-72539 Author: Robert Rothenberg Status: Unreviewed Priority: High Assignee: Category: package Target version: Affected Puppet version: 3.0.0 Keywords: Branch: I work for a small company that is not yet ready to upgrade Puppet to v3. This upgrade may or may not cause problems for us (especially since we use a masterless network), but the upgrade will require us to devote time to test the upgrade. It would be much better if there were separate names for the distributions, say, puppet2. Users who want to delay upgrades can install puppet2 and use that until they are ready. # Updates JJM - I changed the title because different package names are a prescribed solution. There is at least one other alternative proposal, which is to use different repositories for incompatible releases. Whatever we decide on, yum install puppet should be safe for the end user. Releasing incompatible packages to the repository makes this unsafe for end users. # References * [Puppet Users - Puppet 2.7 v 3.0 in the PuppetLabs yum repo](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/puppet-users/Q14kTSE0pvY) * [Puppet 3.0.0 Release Announcement](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-announce/lqmTBX9XDtw/discussion) * [Puppet 3.0.0 breaking changes relative to Puppet 2.7.x](http://links.puppetlabs.com/telly_breaking_changes) -- 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.
