623842 - [tracker] upgrade to puppet-2.6.0

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 679246

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

This is not currently a high priority, but we should get a more up-to-date puppet installed.  Newer versions have a bunch of new capabilities.  The one I'm most keen on is almost trivial: using regular expressions in cases and conditionals.

2.6.0 also runs on Windows, so we can experiment with that, but I'll try to avoid scope-creeping this bug into Windows.

I'm not sure which is more important - the master or slave version.  We should probably aim to upgrade both, as much as possible.

Comment 1

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

According to James Turnbull:
 - 0.24.8 is pretty old - it's older than the "legacy" version on the website
 - upgrade masters first - old clients work with new masters, but not vice versa

Comment 2

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

The readme in
  https://github.com/ripienaar/puppet-catalog-diff
mentions some subtle problems during the upgrade, too, so we should use puppet-catalog-diff to carefully manage the upgrades.

Comment 3

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Obsoleted by puppetAgain and the "upgrade to puppet 2.7" bug