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bastelfreak
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Oct 18, 2023
| Within Vox Pupuli we maintain a lot of modules. | ||
| Keeping those healthy is a challenge and having working acceptance tests makes that feasible. | ||
| For each operating system we need two things: a working (container) image and Puppet. | ||
| The former is generally easy (except for operating systems with licenses), but for the we need some system packages. |
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for the we? Do you mean for the latter we?
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Thank you. This does make it easier for an amateur like me to get started on the journey of contributing to Voxpupuli. |
bastelfreak
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Oct 18, 2023
| Keeping those healthy is a challenge and having working acceptance tests makes that feasible. | ||
| For each operating system we need two things: a working (container) image and Puppet. | ||
| The former is generally easy (except for operating systems with licenses), but for the we need some system packages. | ||
| Until recently we've relied Puppet's [RPM](https://yum.puppet.com/) and [deb](https://apt.puppet.com/) packages. |
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we've relied Puppet's or we've relied on Puppet's?
bastelfreak
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| With this in place, it's possible to start supporting the recently released Debian 12. | ||
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| It's also a good chance to dive a bit deeper in how this is done. | ||
| Back in February I gave [a talk](https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/2023/talk/DWBWFX/) on this, but there was a lot of information in there and a written form may useful. |
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written form may useful or written form may be useful?
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As a side note: we should not publish this until our modulesync has been updated with voxpupuli/modulesync_config#855. |
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| It parses `metadata.json` and builds a [list of supported operating systems](https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet_metadata/blob/ff57b5e1fbc5ea09c6d4e5ca91e8e983f56d5585/lib/puppet_metadata/github_actions.rb#L50-L75). | ||
| For every operating system it iterates the OS releases (except for rolling releases like Archlinux and Gentoo). | ||
| For each release, it iterates the supported Puppet versions (also derived from `metadata.json`) and checks if it can find a Puppet version. | ||
| If there's an AIO build (determined using [PuppetMetadata::AIO](https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet_metadata/blob/master/lib/puppet_metadata/aio.rb)) then that's preferred. |
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| If there's an AIO build (determined using [PuppetMetadata::AIO](https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet_metadata/blob/master/lib/puppet_metadata/aio.rb)) then that's preferred. | |
| If there's an AIO (all-in-one) build (determined using [PuppetMetadata::AIO](https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet_metadata/blob/master/lib/puppet_metadata/aio.rb)) then that's preferred. |
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Addressed the last issue. Also rebased and updated the date to $today. |
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