Bug 510642

Summary:	app-admin/puppet-3.5.1: USE=hiera still relevant?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) <leho>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) <prometheanfire>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	ruby, sysadmin
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://projects.puppetlabs.com/
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) 2014-05-18 10:31:26 UTC

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Hiera-puppet is in end-of-life

As of the release of Puppet 3.0.0, hiera-puppet has been incorporated into the puppet codebase. The standalone hiera-puppet is only needed for releases of Puppet prior to 3.0.0, which are all in bug-fix only mode. The 1.x branch is…

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Puppet ebuild still pulled in separate hiera package. Is this the right thing to do?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2014-05-18 18:10:27 UTC

We never had hiera-puppet in the tree. hiera-puppet != hiera. Currently (with puppet 3.6.0) hiera is still a hard dependency of puppet, as specified in the gem dependencies for puppet.