On Jan 12, 2009, at 7:14 PM, chakkerz wrote:
>
> Hello again
>
> My yaml file for puppetslave contains the fact:
> [r...@puppetbeta manifests]# grep deploysudoers /var/lib/puppet/yaml/
> facts/puppetslave.its.uq.edu.au.yaml
> deploysudoers: "false"
>
> which i note is a string (quotes), not a true / false / boolean ... so
> i've fixed my fact by changing my module's init.pp (note the string
> comparison):
>
> class sudoers-linux
> {
> if $deploysudoers == "true"
> {
> file
> { "/etc/sudoers":
> owner => root,
> group => root,
> mode => 440,
> source => "puppet:///shared/etc/sudoers",
> }
> }
> else
> {
> file
> { "/etc/sudoers":
> owner => root,
> group => root,
> mode => 440,
> }
> }
> }
BTW, to remove this code duplication, look into resource overrides in
the language reference.
>
> I've verified that this works as expected by removing / creating the
> file which the fact checks exists. The first example at
> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#if-else
> seems to indicate that $variable can be a boolean but i don't see how
> i can get a boolean out of a facter. Is there a way?
Hmm, I would have thought it would remain a boolean, but in thinking
about it, I think Puppet converts everything to a string. I guess
that conversion should be modified to leave 'false' and 'true' alone.
>
> Although it is working, i would really like to have a boolean instead
> of a string, because it worries me that someone somwhere (ruby or
> facter) could decide that that should be "TRUE" instead of "true" ...
> which could foreseeably mean an update might do damage...
Could you file a bug about this?
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