package { "something": ensure => latest } ? Do people mostly use it, mostly not use it, is it highly in dispute, or is there consensus? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
dd-b wrote:> package { "something": ensure => latest } ? > > Do people mostly use it, mostly not use it, is it highly in dispute, > or is there consensus? >It''s there when you need it, but it may have unsuspected results if you do not have control over what updates to the package are available to the system. -Jeroen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
I think the only time that makes sense is if you control the package repos, then you can make some relatively safe assumptions and update the repo as part of the change control process. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip@kanarip.com>wrote:> > dd-b wrote: > > package { "something": ensure => latest } ? > > > > Do people mostly use it, mostly not use it, is it highly in dispute, > > or is there consensus? > > > > It''s there when you need it, but it may have unsuspected results if you > do not have control over what updates to the package are available to > the system. > > -Jeroen > > > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:17 PM, dd-b <illegalname@gmail.com> wrote:> > package { "something": ensure => latest } ? > > Do people mostly use it, mostly not use it, is it highly in dispute, > or is there consensus? >It depends on your specific situation. I tend to just use present to be sure the pacakge is installed and let the distro''s update-manager keep it up to date. Evan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Andrew Shafer wrote:> I think the only time that makes sense is if you control the package > repos, then you can make some relatively safe assumptions and update the > repo as part of the change control process. >Agreed ;-) -Jeroen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
dd-b <illegalname@gmail.com> writes:> package { "something": ensure => latest } ? > > Do people mostly use it, mostly not use it, is it highly in dispute, > or is there consensus?We don''t use it because we don''t tightly control when things go into our repository and sometimes upload things we don''t want to deploy yet. We also like to stage and carefully control when packages are upgraded. It''s not an unreasonable thing to do for test/dev environments, but I''d be nervous about using it in production. I like to know when packages are being upgraded and to watch. Puppet can''t prompt an administrator, so if something goes wrong with the package installation, things can be left in a half-installed state. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---