See NEWS; edits to facilitate Puppet 3 RHEL upgrades

NEWS

-release/??????? (2015-02-25)
+release/??????? (2015-02-27)
 
     Beginning of work to support RHEL-ish operating systems
     such as CentOS and Oracle Linux. The most common change 
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ release/??????? (2015-02-25)
     potentially affect any existing hosts. There may be some
     additional refinements when CentOS and Oracle hosts come
     online; for now,  we're assuming they act identical to RHEL.
+    
+    Additionally modified puppetclient.pp to support version
+    locking of puppet and facter versions on RHEL systems.
+    Added one additional manifest to facilitate this.
     (jlent)
 
 release/004.030 (2015-02-25)

manifests/puppetclient.pp

+# install and configure the puppet client
 class base::puppetclient {
   file { '/etc/puppet':
     ensure => directory,
@@ -7,9 +8,19 @@ class base::puppetclient {
     ensure => present,
   }
 
-  package { 'puppet':
-    ensure  => present,
-    require => Base::Puppetclient::Config['/etc/puppet/puppet.conf'],
+  # pin puppet and facter versions on RHELish systems
+  if ($::osfamily == 'RedHat') {
+    include base::yumtools::yum_puppet_lock
+    package { 'puppet':
+      ensure  => present,
+      require => [ Base::Puppetclient::Config['/etc/puppet/puppet.conf'],
+                  Class['base::yumtools::yum_puppet_lock'] ],
+    }
+  } else { # Debianish systems; pinning handled at repository level
+      package { 'puppet':
+        ensure  => present,
+        require => Base::Puppetclient::Config['/etc/puppet/puppet.conf'],
+      }
   }
 
   # It appears that on recently updated wheezy servers, 2.x clients need

manifests/yumtools/yum_puppet_lock.pp

+# Parameterized class to lock puppet and facter versions
+# on RHEL-ish hosts using yum versionlock
+#    facter_version: the yum-aware version of facter to lock
+#    puppet_version: the yum-aware version of puppet to lock
+class base::yumtools::yum_puppet_lock (
+  $facter_version = '2.2.0-1',
+  $puppet_version = '3.7.2-1'
+) {
+  base::yumtools::versionlock {
+    "0:puppet-${puppet_version}.el${::lsbmajdistrelease}*":
+      ensure => present,
+  }
+  base::yumtools::versionlock {
+    "1:facter-${facter_version}.el${::lsbmajdistrelease}*":
+      ensure => present,
+  }
+}