On 6 November 2014 12:13, Felix Frank <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yes, I did witness background agents crashing when they tried to upgrade
> the puppet packages. The postinst script would try to restart the
> service, and kill the agent in the process (leaving the package half
> configured. What fun).
>
> This might work better with newer versions, but with the 2.7.x ones, I'd
> definitely advise caution.
I haven't had any noticeable issues with 3.6 and above on Ubuntu.
I do have a client that is still running 2.7 on CentOS 5 so thanks for
the heads up. :)
> I worked around this by making Puppet register an at job that would
> perform the update, instead of Puppet itself doing so.
Awesome idea.
I may yoink that for my module.
> HTH,
> Felix
>
> On 10/23/2014 11:54 AM, Kai Timmer wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm running a puppetmaster in version 3.7.1 and most of my puppet
>> agents are kept in the Debian wheezy version (2.7.23-1~deb7u3). This
>> works fine for me, so from my point of view there is no need to
>> immediately upgrade my agents, but when I do I would like a way to do
>> this with puppet.
>>
>> Something like this:
>> package {['puppet', 'puppet-common'],
>> ensure => "$puppetversion",
>> notify => 'puppet-agent',
>> }
>>
>> I'm just curios if that would be a good Idea? Wouldn't this break my
>> current puppet run?
>>
>> How do you upgrade your agents? Whats best practise here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kai
>
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