Hi Brian,
Sorry about the delay in responding. Unfortunately eval didn't work or at
least fqdn does not output the value I set it to in test_values.
I am just going to rework my testing to dump a file into
/etc/facter/facts.d and remove it after use. Not ideal but it works with
the least amount of fussing around. I would have loved to get the
commandline option working as I would not have to add and remove files when
I am testing things out.
Thanks,
Peter.
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 08:29:35 UTC+10, Brian Mathis wrote:
>
> The problem is that your variable names are being returned from the
> $(cat...) after bash has already evaluated the environment, so it's taking
> it as a literal string and trying to execute the command.
>
> To get bash to interpret it as a variable, use 'eval':
> eval $(cat test_values | tr '\n' ' ' ) puppet apply --noop -e
> 'notice("${fqdn}")'
>
> Also, on modern versions of facter you can place facts in
> /etc/facter/facts.d and they will override the detected versions.
>
>
> ❧ Brian Mathis
>
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Peter <pe...@ifoley.id.au <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Hi Puppet Users,
>>
>> Firstly I already know that I can override facter variables by adding
>> them to the commandline. Eg:
>>
>> root@dna:~# FACTER_fqdn=foo.bar.info puppet apply --noop -e
>> 'notice("${fqdn}")'
>> Notice: Scope(Class[main]): foo.bar.info
>> Notice: Compiled catalog for dna.local in environment production in 0.03
>> seconds
>> Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.04 seconds
>>
>> I would like to use a number of different FACTER overrides, I can add
>> them all to the command line but I want to test different values at
>> different times. I was hoping that I could have a file like:
>> root@dna:~# cat test_values
>> FACTER_hostname=bob
>> FACTER_domain=mgnt.local
>> FACTER_fqdn=bob.mgnt.local
>> FACTER_foo=foo
>>
>> Then like with the hiera command line tool use an option to tell puppet
>> apply to use this file and override any facts with the same name. However
>> there isnt an option.
>>
>> I have found a bash command which will take the values from the file and
>> concat them together to form one line:
>> root@dna:~# cat test_values | tr '\n' ' '
>> FACTER_hostname=bob FACTER_domain=mgnt.local FACTER_fqdn=bob.mgnt.local
>> FACTER_foo=foo
>>
>> I was then hoping I could do something like:
>> root@dna:~# $(cat test_values | tr '\n' ' ' ) puppet apply --noop -e
>> 'notice("${fqdn}")'
>> -bash: FACTER_hostname=bob: command not found
>>
>> However it doesn't work.
>>
>> My question is, does anyone know a puppet way pass a file to puppet apply
>> which will override facts or if there are any bash experts out there how I
>> can have the output of the command as plan text.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Peter
>>
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