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Fedora 10: 2009-8494 Critical: Puppet Network Management Bug Fix Update

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2009
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The latest puppet revision for Fedora 10 addresses multiple packaging issues and source-related bugs, while also improving network administration features.
This update fixes a number of bugs in both the packaging and upstream source. See the package changelog and bug reports for complete details.

Summary

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a

cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements

normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts,

along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and files.

Update Information:

This update fixes a number of bugs in both the packaging and upstream source. See the package changelog and bug reports for complete details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora bug fix network tool puppet update packaging issue

Change Log

* Fri Aug 7 2009 Todd Zullinger - 0.24.8-4 - Fix status -p handling on older RHEL (#501577) - Fix condrestart when daemon's aren't running (#480600) - Fix timeout reading /proc/mounts (upstream #1963) - Fix permissions on /var/log/puppet (#495096) - Fix rails test for activerecord-2.3 (#515728) * Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.24.8-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jun 24 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen - Fix permissions on /var/run/puppet/ (#495096) - Support initializing supplementary groups (#1806, #475201, Till Maas) - Own the correct vim directory - Move ext/ outside of doc datadir (rpmlint) - Require ruby(selinux) rather then libselinux-ruby (#507848) * Fri May 29 2009 Todd Zullinger - 0.24.8-2 - Make Augeas and SELinux requirements build time options - Install emacs mode and vim syntax files (#491437) - Include ext/ directory in %doc * Mon Mar 23 2009 Todd Zullinger - 0.24.8-1 - Update to 0.24.8 - Quiet output from %pre - Use upstream install script - Increase required facter version to >= 1.5 * Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.24.7-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Dec 16 2008 Todd Zullinger - 0.24.7-4 - Remove redundant useradd from %pre * Tue Dec 16 2008 Jeroen van Meeuwen - 0.24.7-3 - New upstream version - Set a static uid and gid (#472073, #471918, #471919) - Add a conditional requirement on libselinux-ruby for Fedora >= 9 - Add a dependency on ruby-augeas

References


[ 1 ] Bug #475201 - puppetmasterd does not initialize supplementary groups https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475201 [ 2 ] Bug #480600 - puppet initscript: condrestart should call status https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480600 [ 3 ] Bug #495096 - puppet SPEC file defines improper modes for some directories https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495096 [ 4 ] Bug #501577 - `/etc/init.d/puppet status` returns errors https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501577 [ 5 ] Bug #515728 - Storeconfigs broken https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515728

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update puppet' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: puppet
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.24.8
Release: 4.fc10
URL: Summary : A network tool for managing many disparate systems

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security advisory Fedora bug fix network tool puppet update packaging issue

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