All, I put in a request to have the gentoo bug reopened and see if we can apply the same patch that the other distributions used.
Thanks, Matt On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Alex L. Demidov <alexeydemi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 06:50:25PM +0100, Ken Barber wrote: >> I think this gives a little weight to this ticket for Facter then: >> >> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/1346 >> >> Although - I don't see a 9 char limitation on Debian Wheezy. Not sure >> where that patch came from though. I wonder how many other distros >> suffer from this. > > It seems that they (and RHEL/Fedora) patched this long ago. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405521 > >> >> Of slightly related interest - I do see a 15 character limit when >> using 'brctl addbr somelongnamefoo' to create a named interface - and >> that seems to exist for both ifconfig and ip addr when reading the >> interfaces. So I'm guessing 15 chars is the kernel limit or perhaps >> brctl limit :-). > > Luckily all my interface names under 15 chars length. > >> >> ken. >> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Alex L. Demidov >> <alexeydemi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 06:24:40PM +0100, Ken Barber wrote: >> >> Hi Alex, >> >> >> >> What happens when you run 'ip addr list' instead? >> > >> > It shows interface names properly and not truncated. >> > >> >> >> >> ken. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Alex L. Demidov >> >> <alexeydemi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I have Gentoo host where `ifconfig -a` prints long interface names >> >> > truncated to 9 chars (there is closed bug report [1]). >> >> > >> >> > Unfortunately, `facter` uses `ifconfig -a` output to get list of >> >> > interface names and because of truncation it generates `interfaces` >> >> > fact with incorrect interface names. Also it fails to retrieve >> >> > individual interface information with following message for >> >> > each interface with name "myinterface": >> >> > >> >> > Device "myinterfa" does not exist. >> >> > myinterfa: error fetching interface information: Device not found >> >> > >> >> > [1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179920 >> > >> > -- >> > Alex L. Demidov (ALD9-RIPE). >> > http://alexeydemidov.com/ >> > Freelance Consulting. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "Puppet Users" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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-users@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. > > -- > Alex L. Demidov (ALD9-RIPE). > http://alexeydemidov.com/ > Freelance Consulting. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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-users@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.
