Jira (FACT-610) Change windows facter to return same hardware model as linux

[Josh Cooper (JIRA)]

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Josh Cooper commented on an issue   Re: Change windows facter to return same hardware model as linux Windows and Linux use different identifiers to signify 64-bit. Sadly Windows uses both x64 and x86_64 making it even more confusing, see https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/10261#note-10. The choice of x64 for the architecture fact was done intentionally because that is how most windows packages are published. That way you can do: package { "mypackage": ensure => installed, source => "path/to/mypackage-${architecture}.msi" } And puppet will do the right thing. I'm not sure if it's important for the hardwaremodel fact to match the architecture fact... Add Comment   Facter / FACT-610 Change windows facter to return same hardware model as linux facter's fact hardwaremodel on windows is returned as x64 for 64 bit hardware systems. This is not the same as what is returned by Linux systems. On linux hardwaremodel is x86_64. This causes a separate hardwaremodel group to be created when they are actually the same thing. I am attaching the patched file hardwaremodel.rb but I'm not familiar w... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.