On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Lance Dillon wrote: > > > > > Is this where I would submit a patch for facter? I had a situation > > where I wanted lsbdistrelease, but it isn't available by itself. It > > only comes as part of lsb.rb. So you can do: > > > > facter|grep lsbdistrelease > > > > but not > > > > facter lsbdistrelease > > > > because it doesn't load the lsb.rb module, it is looking for an > > lsbdistrelease module, that doesn't exist. > > > > I just created a lsbdistrelease.rb that basically contained nothing > > more > > than: > > > > require 'facter/lsb' > > > > Also, lsbmajdistrelease was the same thing. > > > > I can send in a patch. > > > > I have found these values helpful in some of my puppet recipes. > > This is one place you can send in that patch, yeah. > > Out of curiosity, why do your recipes care whether the individual > facts are retrievable by themselves? Puppet pulls all facts at once, > so I can't imagine why the individual parts matter. > > Actually, I've got some recipes that reference $lsbmajdistrelease, and it never pulled up any values, so my recipes failed in ways I didn't expect. Until I put in those little facter files, then they worked. If there is a way to pull up the individual facts by themselves, I would love to do so. I was using 0.24.5 at the time, and I'm now at 0.24.7. Maybe there was a patch between then and now that fixed this? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
