I was working on Puppet, but it was behaving in an unexpected manner. I noticed it was running Puppet version 3, but I had not run any updates. Luckily, this only happened in my test environment, but how do I prevent Puppet from automatically upgrading itself in the future?
Both apt and yum will by default download the latest version of software available, which if you have our repositories enabled, is Puppet 3.0.1. Both tools also have ways of restricting which versions will be installed.
Apt has a feature called pinning which can be used to restrict the Puppet version to the latest in the 2.7 series or to a specific 2.7 version.
Yum has a plugin called versionlock which can be used to restrict Puppet to a specific version, which could be in the 2.7 series if desired.
The upgrading section of our ...
If you're managing puppet with puppet, you should be able to use an ensure => $version line in your puppet package class to keep the version to be what you want, shouldn't you?
Asked: 2012-10-26 10:48:31 -0500
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Last updated: Jan 03 '13
