Will updating the puppet master update the agents as well?

asked 2013-01-15 10:32:00 -0500

wp64495
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Will updating the puppet master update the agents as well? We want to update our puppet master to 2.7.20 from 2.7.12. Will this change anything on the agents?

answered 2013-01-15 13:01:39 -0500

llowder

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No, the agents will not update if you update the master.

The only way the agents will update (excluding manual updates) is if you use ensure => latest or if you use ensure => 'some version' (such as 2.7.20ubuntu1 or whatever the name is for your package manager) (and then only if they do not already have that version installed).

If you use ensure => installed or ensure => present then whatever version is the latest when the initial install is done is the version they will always have.

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The ensure => latest and ensure => 'version' requires that the package be available to your package management system. If you have the puppetlabs yum/apt.... repository set up this will "just ...(more)

jlambert121 ( 2013-01-16 08:29:56 -0500 )edit

I got stuck on version 3.8.5 and whatever I try it keeps installing that version on client, while on the master i have 4.9. I tried manually by packages, and tried apt to install from repos, but i keeps returning the same version, am I blind or what? (Please help anyone)