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For the puppet software itself, using the puppetlabs apt and yum repos
is the standard installation procedure. The distribution provided
versions are always to old, and the development effort has always been
targeting the latest stable puppet release.

For modules, I have always disagreed with packaging puppet modules by
the operating system. Even library modules like inifile have too much
volatility to be good candidates for packaging in a LTS distro.

For openstack technology like puppet-keystone, the goal is to move to
zuul-cloner (currently being driven by infra) so that the puppet modules
can all share a gate test with each other.

-- 
  Spencer Krum
  nibz at spencerkrum.com

On Fri, May 22, 2015, at 05:21 PM, Gabriele Cerami wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> why are current beaker-rspec tests installing puppet from puppetlabs
> instead of using a package from a distribution repo, like what is done
> for git ?
> 
> More generally, spec_helper_acceptance.rb is setting up what it seems to
> be a distribution independent environment that is using a lot of
> external repos, and only in part the packages offered by the
> distributions. Generic dependencies (like puppet-inifile) and even
> specific dependencies (like puppet-keystone) are probably already
> offered by distribution packages.
> 
> I think that doing this defeats in part the purpose of launching
> acceptance tests on different distributions, because a consistent part
> of the test environment remains always the same.
> 
> --
> Gabriele "panda" Cerami
> Software Engineer, Openstack CI
> Red Hat
> 
> 
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