RFC: refactor to include official hashicorp package repos

[ikonia]

this issue is to track a discussion.

This module has been excellent for me, Hashicorp has started including official package repos for RHEL/Debian based distributions which include obvious benefits like version tracking, file permissions, gpg sigs on packages etc, a lot of which is accounted for in the binary download and this puppet module (enforcing user UID, permissions etc).larger deployments would benefit from official packages and there is a concern that Hashicorp may retire the binary package (although rumour - no fact).

Is it worth now looking at including the official package repos and install methods into this module as a refactor for say version 7 - more so with the consideration of moving the module to vox pupuli

or is there no interest/demand in this additional feature

[solarkennedy]

I don't think too much refactoring would be required, we already have $consul::install_method => 'package', and that could account for the repo stuff.

If they do retire the binary package, that is ok, we'll remove the $consul::install_method => 'url' functionality.