Issue #5130 has been reported by Michael Stahnke.
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Bug #5130: Unable to reliably use Facter as a lib in ruby programs
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5130
Author: Michael Stahnke
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
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When using facter as a ruby library, it behaves in somewhat unpredictable
ways. We were trying to load some facts into an LDAP directory and ran into
the issue of some facts being nil. I wrote up the simplest case I could think
of below.
I tried enabling debugging in facter and it wasn't of much use. (This is
facter 1.5.8 from EPEL on RHEL 5.5 i386)
A basic case here.
<pre>
require 'facter'
shortname = Facter.value('hostname')
puts shortname
lsb = Facter.value('lsbdistdescription')
puts lsb
</pre>
Output
<pre>sbox03
nil</pre>
In this case, the only thing I do is call the .to_hash method. Notice I don't
even utilize the hash in the code in any other way. Obviously calling the
.to_hash method does some thing that populates this lsb fact for the remainder
of the program.
Code
<pre>
require facter
shortname = Facter.value('hostname')
puts shortname
hsh = Facter.to_hash
lsb = Facter.value('lsbdistdescription')
puts lsb
</pre>
Output
<pre>
sbox03
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)
</pre>
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