I think the problem is that using the LSB stuff is unhelpful since non-Linux systems don't support it. The issue with operatingsystemrelease is that behavior has kinda changed with rhel5 from 3 and 4. Now I realize that all it is doing is tokenizing /etc/redhat-release but i agree that this annoys the crap out of me and we implement local facts to make this better.
On Tuesday, December 22, 2009, Len Rugen <lenru...@gmail.com> wrote: > I posted a question about the lsb prefixed facts a few weeks ago. lsbmaj____ > may be what you're looking for. > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Kenton Brede <kbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I for one, thinks that the operatingsystemrelease fact should contain only >> the major number of the operating system, e.g. for Centos/Rehat 5.4 it >> should return just 5. >> >> the reason behind it is that I rarely use the full release version as a >> variable, and if I do, I use the lsb facts. >> >> this change is very annoying, as it requires to change your manifest again >> (we had the same issue between facter 1.38 and 1.5.0). >> >> I ended up having my own fact which is just a wrapper for the >> operatingsystem relase, as it one point of time I might have multiple facter >> version running around.... >> > > I searched through old messages and didn't see that this had been > addressed. I can see people wanting facter to report the minor > version and others wanting just the major release number. The way it > stands I'll need to change every operatingystemrelease variable, each > time a new minor version come out. That's a pain I don't need. So > I'll work around this by creating my own fact. Having two variables > for the OS release seems to me a good choice. Just my 2 cents. > Kent > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- --- Derek T. Yarnell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
