Puppet users - Dec 2010 - Package Repositories at http://yum.puppetlabs.com/

There has recently been some confusion over the contents of the package
repositories located at http://yum.puppetlabs.com/  I hope to clarify the
intended purpose of these repositories with the following information.

The "base" repository located at: http://yum.puppetlabs.com/base/
contains
official packages for software Puppet Labs has released.  Currently this
repository contains official releases of MCollective and Dashboard.

The "prosvc" repository contains packages some of us (myself comes to
mind)
in the company have found useful and use in our own projects from time to
time.  The repository is meant to be by copied into a local repository to
provide an easier to manage solution than compiling things by hand.

I don''t recommend pointing production systems at the prosvc repository,
instead pull the packages into your own repository.  We may remove versions
of software you''re relying on, and I''d hate to have that cause
issues.  The
prosvc repository is also "unofficial" and provided as a convenience.

There was some confusion about the passenger RPM''s in the base
repository.
These shouldn''t have been there and have been moved into the prosvc
repository.  If you''re looking for RPM''s of Passenger, please
pull down and
test the 2.2.11 RPM''s at http://yum.puppetlabs.com/prosvc/ rather than
the
older RPM''s we had in "base"  I''ve removed the old
RPM''s from base and added
a README.txt file to help prevent confusion in the future.

Hope this helps.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
-- 
Jeff McCune
http://www.puppetlabs.com/

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Does it mean mod_passenger RPM package for 2.2.11 is not recommended going
forward? I had to run the built-in script from rubygem-passenger to build
passenger module for apache earlier since no such RPM package was available
from both repositories ..

Thanks,
Hai

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Jeff McCune <jeff@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> There has recently been some confusion over the contents of the package
> repositories located at http://yum.puppetlabs.com/  I hope to clarify the
> intended purpose of these repositories with the following information.
>
> The "base" repository located at: http://yum.puppetlabs.com/base/
contains
> official packages for software Puppet Labs has released.  Currently this
> repository contains official releases of MCollective and Dashboard.
>
> The "prosvc" repository contains packages some of us (myself
comes to mind)
> in the company have found useful and use in our own projects from time to
> time.  The repository is meant to be by copied into a local repository to
> provide an easier to manage solution than compiling things by hand.
>
> I don''t recommend pointing production systems at the prosvc
repository,
> instead pull the packages into your own repository.  We may remove versions
> of software you''re relying on, and I''d hate to have that
cause issues.  The
> prosvc repository is also "unofficial" and provided as a
convenience.
>
> There was some confusion about the passenger RPM''s in the base
repository.
> These shouldn''t have been there and have been moved into the
prosvc
> repository.  If you''re looking for RPM''s of Passenger,
please pull down and
> test the 2.2.11 RPM''s at http://yum.puppetlabs.com/prosvc/ rather
than the
> older RPM''s we had in "base"  I''ve removed the
old RPM''s from base and added
> a README.txt file to help prevent confusion in the future.
>
> Hope this helps.  Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Jeff McCune
> http://www.puppetlabs.com/
>
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Hi Jeff,

2010/12/30 Jeff McCune <jeff@puppetlabs.com>
> [...]
> The "base" repository located at: http://yum.puppetlabs.com/base/
contains
> official packages for software Puppet Labs has released.  Currently this
> repository contains official releases of MCollective and Dashboard.
> [...]
>
what is the prerequisite for using this repository (i.e. CentOS Base +
EPEL)? Currently I maintain my own private repository because of missing
dependencies (didn''t check if it is still true). So from my point of
view it
would make sense to offer an repository that I can simply use in a
combination with CentOS + EPEL or RHEL + EPEL or whatever combination will
help.

Regards, Thomas

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On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:17 PM, hai wu <haiwu.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does it mean mod_passenger RPM package for 2.2.11 is not recommended going
> forward? I had to run the built-in script from rubygem-passenger to build
> passenger module for apache earlier since no such RPM package was available
> from both repositories ..
>
I use passenger 2.2.11 quite often.  You''re welcome to use the 2.2.11
RPM''s
located at http://yum.puppetlabs.com/prosvc/  The recommendation I''m
making
is to pull down the RPM''s and place them into your own local yum
repository
so you''re protected if we move or update the RPM''s in the
prosvc repository.

Hope this helps,
-- 
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http://www.puppetlabs.com/

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On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Thomas Bendler
<thomas.bendler@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> 2010/12/30 Jeff McCune <jeff@puppetlabs.com>
>
>> [...]
>>
>> The "base" repository located at:
http://yum.puppetlabs.com/base/contains official packages for software Puppet
Labs has released.  Currently
>> this repository contains official releases of MCollective and
Dashboard.
>>  [...]
>>
>
> what is the prerequisite for using this repository (i.e. CentOS Base +
> EPEL)? Currently I maintain my own private repository because of missing
> dependencies (didn''t check if it is still true). So from my point
of view it
> would make sense to offer an repository that I can simply use in a
> combination with CentOS + EPEL or RHEL + EPEL or whatever combination will
> help.
>
>
The base repository shouldn''t require EPEL to install MCollective or
Puppet
Dashboard.  If there are missing dependencies please let me know and
I''ll
take a look at the best way to resolve them.

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff McCune
http://www.puppetlabs.com/

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