Facter 1.6.4 is a maintenance release containing fixes, updates and refactoring. It resolves issues #10885, #11041, #10490, and #10444. Full release notes below.
Please note that #11041 changes the dependencies for building or installing Facter on linux systems. Without dmidecode, certain facts could contain less than truthful values. This release is available for download at: http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/facter/facter-1.6.4.tar.gz See the Verifying Puppet Download section at: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Downloading_Puppet#Verifying+Puppet+Downloads Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs Redmine site, using an affected version of 1.6.4: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/ Full Release Notes at: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/wiki/Wiki # Facter 1.6.4 Release Notes === Fix #11041 Add dmidecode as a requirement for rpm We were implicitly relying on dmidecode to determine certain facts without being certain that it was installed. This change to the rpm spec file will ensure we have dmidecode pulled in by rpm/yum as a dependency and thus causing the correct functionality on facter. Note this change only impacts EL based systems. The debian packaging is handled in another repository. Fix #10885 Malformed facter.bat when ruby dir contains backreferences Previously, we were substituting occurrences of <ruby> and <command> in the Windows batch wrapper scripts with the corresponding paths. However,the gsub replacement string was not escaped, so if a path contained something that looked like a backreference, e.g. C:\ruby\187, the gsub would try to replace the backreference with the corresponding capture group. Since there aren't any capture groups, the backreference was stripped from resulting facter.bat, resulting in an invalid path, C:\ruby87\bin\facter. This commit eliminates the need for gsub, since paths can contain other characters that have special meaning in a regexp, e.g. '.'. It also writes the bat file in 'text' mode so that the resulting file has '\r\n' line endings. Fix #10490 Handle case where no macaddress can be found Feature #10444 Add identification of system boards to Facter -- 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.
