I'm guessing this isn't the variety of feedback you're looking for, but just in case:
We recently upgraded a couple of machines from facter 1.3.x to facter 1.5.x and were very dismayed to learn that $operatingsystemrelease on Solaris had changed from the consistent-with-other-operatingsystems "5.9" to "9_u8". This made us wonder if we'd need a different version for every Solaris update (assuming "u8" is update 8, I really have no idea what it means.) On RHEL and HP-UX $operatingsystemrelease didn't change and is what we'd expect (as "5.9" was what we'd expect.) I haven't taken the time to find the checkin that changed it and read the justification, perhaps it's the best thing ever, but it threw us for a loop and broke a lot of branches. Are there Solaris people who are really in need of that level of detail? You really treat u7 differently than u8? Perhaps our approach is also the problem... we run RHEL4 and 5, HP-UX 11.11 and soon 11.31 and Solaris 9 and 10. Across these OSes, $operatingsystemrelease made sense to us (as the numbers in the previous sentence) moreso than say $kernelversion because on RHEL we don't necessarily have the same kernel running everywhere (or want to depend on that) but we do have things we want to do on RHEL4 vs 5 so branching on $kernelversion doesn't really work in the way we'd been branching on $operatingsystemrelease. I too love the idea of a facter.d that can run scripts/bins in whatever language. I hope that the location of that directory won't be hard-wired. The difficult part of this then becomes the namespacing of these facts and/or returning multiple facts from the same script. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
