On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote:

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> We had a chat about this on the list relatively recently.
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> The server actually writes out the client fact data *before* the external
> node provider gets invoked, so you can poke into the fact store on the
> server, assuming that the facts you want are available at that point.
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So, do you mean actually grabbing the data from the server's
$VARDIR/yaml/facts/ directory, or by actually referencing Facter variables
from the external node classifier script?  I'm guessing the former, by your
response.

I vaguely remember a thread where Nigel was shocked by the order that facter
and external nodes were called - but I can't seem to find it yet.  I'll dig
through the archives to see if I can find this...



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> There should be an easier first class method for working this out, but it's
> certainly doable now.
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