On Mar 15, 2009, at 8:58 AM, Sam Rowe wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:01 AM, James Turnbull <[email protected] > > wrote: >> That's fine. We just want to get rid of the inconsistency with the >> minimum amount of user pain. >> >> If we're going in the style of other facts we'd get: >> >> $operatingsystemrelease => 5.2 >> $operatingsystemmajrelease => 5 >> >> This is how the other "maj" facts work currently. >> >> Sadly I think that is going to cause the most distress but +1 for >> consistency. > > We use $operatingsystemrelease all over the place and it would be a > shame, IMO, to make everyone change for the few people who care about > the minor release version of their OS. If you want/need this for your > config, why not have $operatingsystemminorrelease and not force a > bunch of pointless work on everyone every time there's an upgrade?
What about long-term consistency? Do you have concerns there? It's not exactly a forced upgrade - you'll only get the new format when you upgrade Facter, and it would be something like the 1.6 release, which you'd expect to be a bit different. -- I was an only child... eventually. -- Stephen Wright --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
