Installare una versione specifica di puppet dal repository ufficiale

Debian

• Si vuole installare puppet 2.7.23 su debian squeeze, per farlo dialogare su un server Wheezy

• Installare il pacchetto di release:

wget http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-squeeze.deb
sudo dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-squeeze.deb

• Impostare i Pin Apt in base a i requirements che si desumo da apt-cache show packagename e apt-cache policy packagename:

sudoedit /etc/apt/preferences.d/puppet

Package: puppet
Pin: version 2.7.23*
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: puppet-common
Pin: version 2.7.23*
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: facter
Pin: version 1.7.6*
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: *
Pin: release o=Puppetlabs,a=squeeze,n=squeeze,l=Puppetlabs,c=main
Pin-Priority: 1001

• Aggiornare repository

 sudo apt-get update

• Scaricare, verificando che installi puppet, puppet-common e facter da apt.puppetlabs.com:

sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install puppet -d

• Installare

sudo apt-get install puppet

• Controllare:

dpkg -l  puppet puppet-common facter

ii  facter          1.7.6-1puppetla Ruby module for collecting simple facts about 
ii  puppet          2.7.23-1puppetl Centralized configuration management - agent s
ii  puppet-common   2.7.23-1puppetl Centralized configuration management

• Verificare

puppet --version
2.7.23

Riferimenti

• Using the Puppet Labs Package Repositories — Documentation — Puppet Labs
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