Puppet users - Apr 2013 - puppet module upgrade dilemma with Subversion

I use Subversion to maintain the $confdir of my puppet-masters and I just
discovered that when one does an upgrade, the entire tree is blown away and
replaced -- all my .svn directories are gone.

I see nothing in the documentation (man page and such) to address this.

Suggestions ?

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) 

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On 04/12/2013 02:55 PM, Dan White wrote:
> I use Subversion to maintain the $confdir of my puppet-masters and I just
discovered that when one does an upgrade, the entire tree is blown away and
replaced -- all my .svn directories are gone.
> 
> I see nothing in the documentation (man page and such) to address this.
> 
> Suggestions ?
Subversion may not be the cleanest approach anyhow.

I hear they invented that configuration management system... ;-)

Cheers,
Felix

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What OS are you on, and what package manager are you using to 
install/upgrade puppet?

On Friday, April 12, 2013 5:55:52 AM UTC-7, Ygor wrote:
>
> I use Subversion to maintain the $confdir of my puppet-masters and I just 
> discovered that when one does an upgrade, the entire tree is blown away and
> replaced -- all my .svn directories are gone. 
>
> I see nothing in the documentation (man page and such) to address this. 
>
> Suggestions ? 
>
> “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere 
> in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” 
> Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) 
>
>
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and yum


“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) 

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From: "Ellison Marks" <gtyaoi@gmail.com> 
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Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 3:36:53 AM 
Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet module upgrade dilemma with Subversion 

What OS are you on, and what package manager are you using to install/upgrade
puppet?

On Friday, April 12, 2013 5:55:52 AM UTC-7, Ygor wrote: 

I use Subversion to maintain the $confdir of my puppet-masters and I just
discovered that when one does an upgrade, the entire tree is blown away and
replaced -- all my .svn directories are gone.

I see nothing in the documentation (man page and such) to address this. 

Suggestions ? 

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) 



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I also have my puppetmaster files in Subversion, and I''m running into
the
same problem with upgrading modules from Puppet Forge. This question on 
Stack Exchange (http://stackoverflow.com/q/5664666/190298) doesn''t have
any
fancy solutions either. Here are some of the ideas I''ve come up with so
far:

- Write a shell script to automate the process of deleting, committing, 
re-downloading, re-committing, so that it takes place as quickly as 
possible.
- Set up a "QA" environment based on the same SVN repository. Do the
module
upgrade here and commit. Then a single "svn up" on the production
files
will bring them all in line.
- Use git instead of subversion. It doesn''t suffer from the same source
tree pollution that .svn folders do.
- It might be possible to have a git working copy instead of the svn 
working copy, but add the .git hidden folder to svn:ignore. Then git could 
be used to pull updates from GitHub, where most of the puppet forge modules 
are developed.

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Nic


On Friday, 12 April 2013 05:55:52 UTC-7, Ygor wrote:
>
> I use Subversion to maintain the $confdir of my puppet-masters and I just 
> discovered that when one does an upgrade, the entire tree is blown away and
> replaced -- all my .svn directories are gone. 
>
> I see nothing in the documentation (man page and such) to address this. 
>
> Suggestions ? 
>
> “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere 
> in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” 
> Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) 
>
>
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