Implement a command to display the Puppet versions shipped with various OSes

[alexjfisher]

It's useful to know what versions of various puppet related components ship with which OSes. In many cases AIO packages are available, but not always.

OS	Puppet	Ruby	Facter	PC1 AIO?	P5 AIO?	P6 AIO?	Comment
Arch Linux	6.1.0	2.5.3	3.12.2	❌	❌	❌	Repackages Puppet
Debian 8	3.7.2	2.1.5	2.2.0	✔️	✔️	✔️	Use AIO
Debian 9	4.8.2	2.3.3	2.4.6	✔️	✔️	✔️	Use AIO
EL6 (with EPEL)	~	1.8.7	1.6.18	✔️	✔️	✔️	Use AIO
EL7 (with EPEL)	3.6.2	2.0.0	2.4.1	✔️	✔️	✔️	Use AIO
Fedora 27	4.10.1	2.4.2	2.4.3	✔️	✔️	✔️	EOL since 2018-11-30
Fedora 28	4.10.10	2.5.1	3.9.3	❌	✔️	✔️
Fedora 29	5.5.1	2.5.1	3.9.3	❌	✔️	✔️
Solaris 11.4	5.5.0	2.3.1	2.5.1	❌	❌	❌	11.3 Only contained puppet 3. Old facter version could be an issue

[mmerfort]

OS	Puppet	Ruby	Facter	Opensource/Free AIO?	Comment
Arch Linux	6.1.0	2.5.3	3.12.2	👍	Repackages Puppet

[ekohl]

I've updated the table and split it the AIO column into exact versions (PC1, P5, P6). Also added Debian.

[ekohl]

Should this be a wiki page?

[alexjfisher]

@ekohl Yeah maybe. Also the thumbs up/down aren't great, are they?! ;)

EDIT - Changed 👍 and 👎 to ✔️ and ❌

[bastelfreak]

@alexjfisher Arch also packages Puppet 5, probably until it is end of life: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/puppet5/

[ekohl]

This could use an update :)

[ekohl]

We actually sort of built such a list in code by now: https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet_metadata/blob/master/lib/puppet_metadata/aio.rb has a list of AIO builds and

puppet_metadata/lib/puppet_metadata/operatingsystem.rb

Lines 211 to 236 in ca6a320

	# Return the Puppet major version in an OS release, if any
	#
	# Only tracks releases without an AIO build, since that's preferred.
	#
	# @param [String] operatingsystem
	# The operating system name
	# @param [String] release
	# The operating system release version
	#
	# @return [Optional[Integer]] The Puppet major version, if any
	def os_release_puppet_version(operatingsystem, release)
	case operatingsystem
	when 'Debian'
	case release
	when '12'
	7
	end
	when 'Fedora'
	case release
	when '39', '40'
	8
	when '37', '38'
	7
	end
	end
	end

has a list of distro Puppet versions.

This information is used to generate CI matrices in GitHub Actions, so we have a good motivation to keep it up to date.

If this is useful, I'd suggest implementing a command to print a table. In #120 I started to write the structure to implement commands.

Because of that, I'm transferring the issue to puppet_metadata.