On Feb 1, 2009, at 1:07 AM, Sam Rowe wrote:
> 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?
Hmm. That seems like a bug, and was probably caused in the switch to
using uname -v instead of parsing /etc/release (which doesn't exist
everywhere).
We certainly didn't mean to change the results here.
In other words, we try to maintain backward compatibility, and we'll
definitely try to here, including publishing release candidates for
every release.
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