On Feb 20, 7:14 pm, Nathan Powell <nat...@nathanpowell.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Matt Mencel <m...@techminer.net> wrote:
> > I am trying to write a custom facter for CentOS/RHEL that tells me how many
> > updates are found on a run of 'yum check-update'
>
> Sorry I replied hastily. After replying I thought about what you're
> trying to do. You don't need all those gyrations to get this data
>
> Tested quickly on RHEL6 and CentOS5:
>
> `sudo yum check-update -q`.split(/\n/).reject{|i| i == ""}.length
Alternatively,
`yum -q check-update | grep '\\w' | wc --lines`.chomp
sudo is not needed to run yum queries, and avoiding sudo when you
don't need it is good practice. Personally, I find that command a lot
more legible than the Ruby split / reject / length business, too,
though YMMV.
Also, I think you need to set the timeout inside your setcode block,
not outside. Only that way can you be sure that you'll have the
desired timeout when the fact actually runs. (Otherwise, you might
get the timeout that some other fact sets.)
John
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