Thanks Dan, I shall hunt down the elusive pixie dust! BTW, do you know where to look for a compatibility tree between stdlib and puppet version? Cheers, Larry
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Dan White <[email protected]> wrote: > I can speak directly on this ! > > You want http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/stdlib/3.2.0 > > This has the /etc/facter/facts.d/* Magic Pixie Dust in it. > > I just went thru a brief panic attack when I updated to Facter 1.7 and > puppetlabs-stdlib 4.0.2 ! > The changelog says "Remove facter_dot_d for compatibility with external > facts” and I had to do some rapid searching and verifying that stuff put > into /etc/facter/facts.d/* still worked. Short answer: They do ! > > As far as details on stdlib, here you go: > > > https://puppetlabs.com/blog/module-of-the-week-puppetlabsstdlib-puppet-labs-standard-library/ > > > https://puppetlabs.com/blog/module-of-the-week-puppetlabs-stdlib-puppet-labs-standard-library-part-2/ > > > https://puppetlabs.com/blog/module-of-the-week-puppetlabsstdlib-puppetlabs-standard-library-part-3/ > > I find it very useful. Hope you do as well. > > On Apr 13, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Larry Fast wrote: > > > > From that page: "External facts are only available in Facter 1.7 and > later." > > > I expect you need to either upgrade or install the stdlib module. > > Thanks for that. I knew I missed something. ... but tell me more about > the stdlib option. I'm a bit leery of depending on the first RC of facter > 1.7. Do you know that stdlib has some answer to this problem or was it > just a speculation? > > Thanks, > > Larry > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-users/dsqLBBFpwGE/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
