Most likely there are dependencies which would also need to be updated and Redhat likes to avoid breaking things in a RHEL release. If you really need the latest version of puppet installed the packages from the official repos work fine.
On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 12:26:19 PM UTC-4, Michael Di Domenico wrote: > > does anyone know who or how puppet gets into epel? the packages for > puppet/facter in epel are woefully out of date. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/83b11bd0-67fe-4885-8f62-1833ca8c0404%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
