On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Paul Nasrat <pnas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 November 2010 16:42, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Steve Atwell <satw...@google.com> wrote:
>>> I need to write a custom fact that depends on the value of another
>>> custom fact in a different file. For example:
>>>
>>> # foo.rb
>>> Facter.add("foo") do
>>> setcode do
>>> [...]
>>> end
>>> end
>>>
>>> # bar.rb
>>> Facter.add("bar") do
>>> setcode do
>>> if (Facter.value("foo") == "option1") then
>>> [...]
>>> else
>>> [...]
>>> end
>>> end
>>> end
>>>
>>> Do I need to do anything to ensure that the foo fact is added before
>>> the bar fact's block is evaluated? Or does puppet load all facts
>>> before evaluating any of them?
>>
>> Hi Steve, this will do the right thing, you don't have to ensure foo
>> is added first.
>
> I'm not sure this is true in all cases, although quickly testing with
> a fact/filename mismatch this does work.
>
> It used to be in some cases you may have to force a loadfacts as mentioned in
>
> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Adding_Facts
>
> Testing using irb shows the issue using a facts dir containing:
>
> https://gist.github.com/714987
>
> FACTERLIB=$(pwd)/facts irbirb(main):001:0> require 'facter'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> Facter.value('bar')
> => "default"
In the past I've been able to reproduce that in irb, but never in a Puppet run.
>
>
> Paul
>
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