On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:48 PM, lance dillon <riffraff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu> wrote:
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>>
>> Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> writes:
>>
>> > Ugh. This is particularly sucky, and I vote this fact needs to be fixed
>> > for this irrespective of the plugin loading issue.
>>
>> > The problem is:
>>
>> > if Facter.value(:lsbdistid) == "Ubuntu"
>> > "Ubuntu"
>> > elsif FileTest.exists?("/etc/debian_version")
>> > "Debian"
>>
>> > the first invocation doesn't fill lsbdistid, so it falls through to
>> > Debian when /etc/debian_version exists on Ubuntu.
>>
>> Inside Puppet, this works fine, since Puppet always loads all plugins. It
>> really only affects the command-line invocation (although I don't know
>> what happens if you use facter in a different Ruby program).
>>
>>
> This looks like more of a result of using grep.
>
> If you call facter with operatingsystem, you are asking for just the
> operating system. If you call facter without any arguments, it gives you
> everything, then you are grepping for anything that contains the continuous
> stream of letters "operatingsystem", whether or not it is a separate word or
> not. That would happen with any program, facter or not.
>
This has nothing to do with grep.
facter should report a single consistent value for 'operatingsystem' when
invoked in either of these ways.
It's certainly related to the bigger facter issue of not loading all facts
when you simply ask for one, but the fact (no pun intended) stands that this
should be fixed regardless of the state of that issue.
Andrew, have you put a bug report in about this?
>
> >
>
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nigel
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