PuppetThreeWorkarounds¶

• Table of contents
• PuppetThreeWorkarounds
  • uninitialized constant HostObserver (#1872)
  • Could not find value for $confdir (Puppet::Settings::InterpolationError)
  • Report processing seems to work but the summaries are all zero
  • Cannot import classes
  • Proxy complains of autosign permissions issues
• Conclusions

This page details the various fixes for making Foreman work with Puppet 3. If your issue is not listed, please open a bug report on the issue tracker, and detail appropriate workarounds (with link to the bug number) here.

Making Foreman and Puppet 3 work together requires quite some hackery. At the least, you should be running Foreman from Git, or be willing to perform serious amounts patching by hand. Usual disclaimers apply - this may all break in horrible ways, don't use it in production, etc etc etc.

uninitialized constant HostObserver (#1872)¶

Foreman itself needs some code updates to load Puppet 3. You can merge the latest version from Sam Kottler's puppet3 branch in the usual way. Something like this:

git pull https://github.com/skottler/foreman puppet3

Could not find value for $confdir (Puppet::Settings::InterpolationError)¶

Puppet's parser is currently having issues with interpolated variables. If you have any variables in your puppet.conf, change them to explicit paths (exception: $environment seems ok). For example:

ssldir = $vardir/ssl
    classfile = $vardir/classes.txt
    localconfig = $vardir/localconfig

would become

ssldir = /var/lib/puppet/ssl
    classfile = /var/lib/puppet/classes.txt
    localconfig = /var/lib/puppet/localconfig

In addition, a change in Puppet 3 causes it to look in the wrong place for the puppet.conf file (~/.puppet instead of /etc/puppet). You may need to run:

ln -s /etc/puppet ~foreman/.puppet

Report processing seems to work but the summaries are all zero¶

This appears to be a minor change in the Puppet::Transaction::Report object. Pull request 166 has been updated with a workaround, so please let us know if you're still seeing this.

Cannot import classes¶

This is a bug in the Puppet parser code. We've submitted a pull request, and are waiting for PuppetLabs to merge it. You can try it yourself, the code is at https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/1270

Proxy complains of autosign permissions issues¶

The current version of Puppet ignores the file permissions settings in puppet.conf. In other words, this doesn't work:

[master]
      autosign       = /etc/puppet/autosign.conf { mode = 664 }

However, for the moment, it's so broken that puppet will not fix the ownership of the file, so you can run this instead:

chown foreman-proxy:puppet /etc/puppet/autosign.conf

Conclusions¶

There may well be other problems too. Let us know on the bug tracker, IRC, or the dev mailing list if you find any.