tag upstream http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16639 thanks
> I've just been trying to set up my first puppet installation, and spent a > bit of time trying to work out why my squeeze client had troubles connecting > to the lenny server. There wasn't much in the way of useful error messages, > just the client waiting for a certificate from the server, and the server > claiming there were no certificates to be signed. > > I eventually found a bit in the documentation that mentioned that there > "might be issues" when trying to connect a newer client to an older server. > Once I discovered this, I installed the backports of the newer puppet on the > server and all was well. It is common wisdom in puppet land that your master should always be either the same version as your clients or newer, and that when you upgrade, you should upgrade the master first, and then the clients. > However, this would've been much easier to debug if the client and/or server > had logged an error message indicating that the two versions were > incompatible. It would be nice if the client could perform a version check > when first connecting to the server. I agree, it would be nice to have been told that! I've forwarded this upstream, its a legitimate feature request. micah
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