Bug 1728768

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to '31'.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to 31.

Puppet maintainers in Fedora, what do you think about this upgrade?

Given the lack of response, is it time for a new maintainer or at least new co-maintainers per https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers/

hi!

There is some work going on to update package to puppet 6.x, see e.g.

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1815115

Puppet 5 will go EOL in November (next month) and Fedora 33 isn't updated yet but I noticed the version in EPEL8 was updated. Can we get this into Fedora too? I would be interesting in maintaining it and needed dependencies.

I will have a look on having puppet 6 on fedora.
I am worried a little bit about backwards compatibility. But let's see.

I may help achieving the packaging of pupppet 6 for fedora, even I have by now not so much experience in fedora packaging. Let me just now if I can do something to support you.

Hey Lucien, sure, that will be helpful.
I packaged puppet 6 for EPEL 8.
I believe that it won't be a lot different, right?
I will reach out by email.

I'd also be interested in helping. Currently not a Fedora packager, but I have a decent experience with RPM packaging. Locally I built the EPEL 8 code for Fedora 33 and that appeared to work, at least for my use case of validating the syntax in vim.

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fyi

puppet still doesn't support ruby 3. 
So we need to wait for the upstream, first [1, 2].

1 https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-9696
2 https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-10247

3 https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-10957

This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

(In reply to Breno from comment #12)
> puppet still doesn't support ruby 3. 
> So we need to wait for the upstream, first [1, 2].
> 
> 1 https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-9696
> 2 https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-10247

there are WIP PRs which could be included as patches in Fedora RPM
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/8589

You'll also need some merged PRs:
* https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/8582
* https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/8587
* https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/8588
* https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/8590
* https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/8592

Also, Facter 4 needs:
* https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/pull/2381 (merged but unreleased)

Yes, at the moment puppet is still not compatible with ruby 3.
They are working on this [1]. As soon as it's fixed, we can have puppet 7 in Fedora.

1 https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-10957

We've just pushed puppet to puppet 7 in fedora rawhide (f35) https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-975952ea32.

Thanks.

Accordint to puppetlabs release notes in https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/release_notes_puppet.html , version 7.8.0 added support for ruby 3 but latest in rawhide is 7.7.0.

By now we can update to 7.8.0 since it's on https://downloads.puppet.com/puppet/ but it wasn't when we did most of the work to update. Should be a fairly trivial bump now.

As for Ruby 3 support: the real patches landed in 7.7.0. The only one that's related is in Gemfile, but that's irrelevant for RPMs. And back then Puppet didn't test it with CI which is a good reason to not formally declare support.

Yes, thanks for replying Ewoud.

@Alfredo, please read the whole ticket, all the information you wanted is here.

Thanks for the information.

Reading the info in puppetlabs tickets i found:

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/8613/commits/22a0fb328e409150c9a370824a46d514953aabdb 

Which seems to be included in 7.8.0.

My understanding was that this PR is needed for ruby3 as it's under https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-11071 but it may be just optional.

Thanks for looking into that. I missed that when I scanned through the git log (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/compare/7.7.0...7.8.0). There's no reason not to update Rawhide to 7.8.0, other than that someone should submit the PR.