Puppet users - Jun 2009 - Obtaining puppet and facter for RHEL5/Centos5

What''s the correct yum repo to use for installing Puppet & Facter
on
RHEL5 and Centos5?

I used to get them from the dlutter-rhel5 repo but this seems to be
massively out of date now - latest version of puppet-server in there is
0.24.5-1.el5 and facter 1.5.4-1.el5.

In Epel I see puppet-server 0.24.8-1.el5.1 and facter 1.5.4-1.el5 which
is better but isn''t 1.5.4 the version that hangs?

In epel-testing there is no puppet-server but there is a facter
1.5.5-1.el4 but that sounds like a release for RHEL4 not 5.

Is there a repo that I am not checking?

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I use the RPM''s from plain EPEL for both RHEL 4 and 5, on both i386
and x86_64, and so far they''ve worked great.
If you are concerned about the packages, I would recommend setting up
a little test environment with a puppetmaster and a few clients, and
just test it out.

BR.
Rune Stensø

On 12 Jun, 11:50, Trevor Hemsley <trevor.hems...@codefarm.com>
wrote:
> What''s the correct yum repo to use for installing Puppet &
Facter on
> RHEL5 and Centos5?
>
> I used to get them from the dlutter-rhel5 repo but this seems to be
> massively out of date now - latest version of puppet-server in there is
> 0.24.5-1.el5 and facter 1.5.4-1.el5.
>
> In Epel I see puppet-server 0.24.8-1.el5.1 and facter 1.5.4-1.el5 which
> is better but isn''t 1.5.4 the version that hangs?
>
> In epel-testing there is no puppet-server but there is a facter
> 1.5.5-1.el4 but that sounds like a release for RHEL4 not 5.
>
> Is there a repo that I am not checking?
>
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>
> Trevor Hemsley
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Hi
> What''s the correct yum repo to use for installing Puppet &
Facter on
> RHEL5 and Centos5?
>
> I used to get them from the dlutter-rhel5 repo but this seems to be
> massively out of date now - latest version of puppet-server in there is
> 0.24.5-1.el5 and facter 1.5.4-1.el5.
>
> In Epel I see puppet-server 0.24.8-1.el5.1 and facter 1.5.4-1.el5 which
> is better but isn''t 1.5.4 the version that hangs?
>
> In epel-testing there is no puppet-server but there is a facter
> 1.5.5-1.el4 but that sounds like a release for RHEL4 not 5.
>
> Is there a repo that I am not checking?
as David mentioned in, his own repo is dead:
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/2a39d462928815b8/214404382dd679bb?q=#214404382dd679bb

long live EPEL!

cheers pete

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Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> What''s the correct yum repo to use for installing Puppet &
Facter on
> RHEL5 and Centos5?
>
> I used to get them from the dlutter-rhel5 repo but this seems to be
> massively out of date now - latest version of puppet-server in there
> is 0.24.5-1.el5 and facter 1.5.4-1.el5.
>
> In Epel I see puppet-server 0.24.8-1.el5.1 and facter 1.5.4-1.el5
> which is better but isn''t 1.5.4 the version that hangs?
>
> In epel-testing there is no puppet-server but there is a facter
> 1.5.5-1.el4 but that sounds like a release for RHEL4 not 5.
>
> Is there a repo that I am not checking?
Generally, the most up to date packages are in epel-testing.  If you
enable epel-testing, you''ll also want epel enabled.  At the moment,
that will get you the latest stable releases of puppet and facter
(well, facter is at 1.5.5 instead of 1.5.6 because 1.5.6 doesn''t
contain any fixes relevant for Fedora/EPEL).

If you really want to live dangerously, I have puppet-0.25beta1
packages in a repo on fedorapeople.org:

    http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/repo/puppet/epel/

Like Lutter''s repo, this one is meant for use only by those willing to
test new packages at their own risk.  Of course I''m always interested
in reports of packaging bugs, but I can''t guarantee I''ll be
able to
push out fixed packages in a hurry there.

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Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Generally, the most up to date packages are in epel-testing.  If you
> enable epel-testing, you''ll also want epel enabled.  At the
moment,
> that will get you the latest stable releases of puppet and facter
> (well, facter is at 1.5.5 instead of 1.5.6 because 1.5.6 doesn''t
> contain any fixes relevant for Fedora/EPEL).
>   
I have EPEL itself enabled as one of my repos but epel-testing is
generally disabled - enabled only when I need specific things from it.
Currently epel-testing for RHEL5/CentOS5 appears to have a wrong package
in it for facter (1.5.5-1.el4 vs .el5). I suspect it probably works
anyway but I haven''t checked it to find out.

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Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> I have EPEL itself enabled as one of my repos but epel-testing is
> generally disabled - enabled only when I need specific things from
> it.
That works.
> Currently epel-testing for RHEL5/CentOS5 appears to have a wrong
> package in it for facter (1.5.5-1.el4 vs .el5). I suspect it
> probably works anyway but I haven''t checked it to find out.
Are you sure your repo configs are correct?  I don''t see a .el4 facter
package in the epel-testing repos for EL5:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/testing/5/

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Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Are you sure your repo configs are correct?  I don''t see a .el4
facter
> package in the epel-testing repos for EL5:
>   
They are correct but they were not before. What I seem to have
discovered that I didn''t know before is that `yum clean all` needs to
be
told to --enablerepo=epel-testing in order to clean the cache for that
repo (yes, it''s documented but only when you bother to look it up :) )

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Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> They are correct but they were not before. What I seem to have
> discovered that I didn''t know before is that `yum clean all` needs
to be
> told to --enablerepo=epel-testing in order to clean the cache for that
> repo (yes, it''s documented but only when you bother to look it up
:) )
Heh, I saw this just the other day and thought how unintuitive it is.
I know I would expect yum clean all to clean, you know, _all_.  ;)

Anyway, glad that sorts things out for you.  If you find any packaging
bugs, don''t hesitate to report them to us via bugzilla.redhat.com.
Or report it here if you''re unsure if it''s packaging or not. 
We can
certainly help figure out where to report the problem.

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