Puppet users - Feb 2009 - Removing my public Fedora/RHEL yum repos

Hi,

I am planning on removing the yum repos[1] on my people page for a
number of reasons: (1) they are unnecessary since the same set of
packages is available from more offical palces (see below) and (2) using
these RPM''s is actively dangerous since they are not signed, and are
therefore open to any number of attacks.

If you are on Fedora, you get the latest stable yum from the
repositories that are already enabled; if you want to be more bleeding
edge, you can enable the updates-testing repo and get not-quite-stable
packages as soon as they are available.

If you are on RHEL/CentOS/..., puppet packages are available in EPEL[2].
Because EPEL only pushes packages from testing to stable when a RHEL
update release happens, you need to use the appropriate epel-testing
repo for ''in-between-updates'' - be careful though, since
packages there
show up as soon as they''ve been built, not when they are pushed to
stable in Fedora.

Finally, if you need historical puppet packages, you can get them
directly from koji [3].

So, gentlemen, update your yum repo configs ;) The actual removal will
happen next Friday, 2/20/09.

David

[1] http://people.redhat.com/~dlutter/yum
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
[3] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=3529




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