Issue #16729 has been updated by Robert Rothenberg.

Michael Stahnke wrote:
> While we've never published official policies for the repository, ala EPEL, 
> we did send out notices about the move to Puppet 3.0.0 (latest production) 
> more than once.  So that policy, was documented.  I realize not everybody 
> read it.   There was also some twitter activity about this happening.

I regularly receive e-mails from PuppetLabs inviting me to try out Puppet 
Enterprise, or to tell about the next Puppet Camp and other events.  But I did 
not receive an e-mail about the upgrade.

James Turnbull wrote:
> You should never trust the repo maintainer. Even us. We're all fallible.

As a company that provides commercial products and services, that's not 
something you want to be stating in public lightly.




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Bug #16729: When using the puppetlabs repositories, `yum install puppet` should 
be safe.
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16729#change-72754

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)



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