https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=171269419024619&w=2

as this is openbsd-specific and users updating from 7.7 to 7.8 will be 
moving to puppet 8, it would be good to add that information to 
faq/current.html.

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On 14 October 2025 06:40:14 Sebastian Reitenbach 
<sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:

> Find my Mail “overhaul puppet package handling in puppet 8” or something 
> along the lines from April 24 in ports@ archives, which explains.
>
> Sebastian
>
> Missing signature
>
>> On 8. Oct 2025, at 11:42, Janne Johansson <icepic.dz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Not sure, but is this one of the effects of pkg_add needing -Dsnap if
>> you are on current before the 7.8 packages exist?
>>
>> Den ons 8 okt. 2025 kl 10:47 skrev Giovanni Bechis <giovanni@paclan.it>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> on my manifest I used to have entries like:
>>> ensure_packages(['apache-httpd'], { ensure => 'latest' })
>>>
>>> With Puppet 8 I have this regression:
>>> Error: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter ensure failed on 
>>> Package[apache-httpd]: Provider openbsd must have features 'upgradeable' to 
>>> set 'ensure' to 'latest'
>>>
>>> Is this something fixable ?
>>>
>>> Versions are "7.8 GENERIC.MP#52 amd64" and "puppet-8.10.0p3"
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Giovanni
>>
>>
>>
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