Don't distribute your facter plugin via manifest. Use puppet's sync
which is described her:
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PluginsInModules
This will distribute your facter addons at the beginning of your run
and you can use them in like any normal fact.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Greg Retkowski <g...@rage.net> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I have a case where I'm depending on custom facter rules in my puppet
> config, and those custom facter rules come from a ruby library that puppet
> installs. I need to know how I can ensure that library is installed by
> puppet before classes that depend on those facts are evaluated..
>
> To illustrate...
>
> class facter_rules {
> file {
> "/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/custom.rb":
> source => "puppet://$server/dist/custom.rb";
> }
> }
>
> class sitestuff {
> include facter_rules
> case "$customfact" {
> "value-a": {
> # do stuff
> }
> "value-b": {
> # do other stuff
> }
> }
> }
> ...
>
> Using this, often class sitestuff gets evaluated before my facter_rules file
> copy is done - which results in puppet exiting without putting custom.rb in
> place. I'm using puppet vers. 0.24.4.
>
> I've considered using 'before =>' in my facter_rules file definition, but
> class 'sitestuff' may be defined or not defined depending on what
> services/classes are defined on the host.
>
> Any ideas on how I can get around this chicken and egg problem?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Greg
>
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Daniel
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