Puppet users - Aug 2010 - 0.24.5 puppetmaster, 0.25.4 puppetd, version sheer?

This feels like a FAQ and sorry if it is, I failed to find an answer.

I''d like some advice on handling backward compatibility between puppetd
and puppetmaster.

My puppetmaster is at v0.24.5 using Debian Lenny packages.  I tried to
bring up a puppetd client v0.25.4 (Ubuntu 10.04 packages) but failed to
have it download the puppetmaster''s certificate.  The puppetd client
seemed to be asking for the wrong path as I see log messages like:

[2010-08-31 12:59:40] ERROR `/production/certificate/ca'' not found.

And, indeed, I find no such paths around on the master.

Should this combination work?

In general how do people handle version sheer?  Do you ignore the
packages that come from with the OS and install the same version
everywhere from source?  Something else?

Thanks!
-Brett.

Brett Viren wrote:
> This feels like a FAQ and sorry if it is, I failed to find an answer.
> 
> I''d like some advice on handling backward compatibility between
puppetd
> and puppetmaster.
> 
> My puppetmaster is at v0.24.5 using Debian Lenny packages.  I tried to
> bring up a puppetd client v0.25.4 (Ubuntu 10.04 packages) but failed to
> have it download the puppetmaster''s certificate.  The puppetd
client
> seemed to be asking for the wrong path as I see log messages like:
> 
> [2010-08-31 12:59:40] ERROR `/production/certificate/ca'' not
found.
The master should always be the same or a later version than the client.
 We''re pretty good about backwards compatibility that way.  Newer
clients and older masters will generally not work.
> In general how do people handle version sheer?  Do you ignore the
> packages that come from with the OS and install the same version
> everywhere from source?  Something else?
On Debian/Ubuntu I tend to backport or use PPAs.

Regards

James Turnbull

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