[Pkg-puppet-devel] Proposed Puppet installation changes

[Gary Law]

 2009/3/17 Luke Kanies <luke at madstop.com>

> On Mar 16, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>
>  Greetings puppet packagers,
>>
>> I'm Todd.  I help maintain the puppet packages for Fedora and EPEL.  I
>> found your names and addresses associated with puppet packages for
>> various Linux distributions and other operating systems.  If I've
>> included anyone mistakenly, please accept my apologies.  Likewise, if
>> there is a better address to reach the packagers of puppet for your
>> distribution/OS, I'd be happy to learn about it.
>>
>
> Should we have a puppet-packagers list or something?  This kind of problem
> has come up more than once.


well, I think it's reasonable to assume packagers will be subscribed to
puppet-dev... however, there may be discussions that are best just targeted
at port maintainers that will just be noise on puppet-dev, so a packagers
list might be a good idea anyway

>
> I'll also say: The current install.rb essentially sucks.  It's barely
> maintained, I don't think anyone likes it, and the ruby community has
> better, simpler ways of managing this these days, I think.  If anyone feels
> passionately about installation and wants to rip this thing to shreds and
> replace it with something better, I'd love to see it.
>

well, install.rb isn't the worst install mechanism I've had to try and
package around, so I've no complaints.


-- 
Gary Law
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