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.

-- 
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