----- Original Message ----- > > > On Jul 14, 11:57 am, PBWebGuy <pbweb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You bring up a good point and I wanted to ask this question > > anyways. > > To the best of my knowledge, functions run on the master and facts > > run > > on the node. If that is the case, it perplexes me that functions > > get > > sync'd to the node in the /var/lib/puppet/lib... directory. That > > is > > unless functions can then be used in a fact which is something that > > I > > have yet to test. Do you have any clarification? > > > If you want an authoritative answer, then the question might be > better > posed on the dev list. > > I speculate, however, that functions in modules are synced to nodes > as a harmless side effect of the overall plugin sync mechanism. Since > they *are* synced to nodes, it should be possible to use them (their > Ruby implementations, that is) in custom facts. But again, the kinds > of things you want a Puppet function for tend to be quite different > from the kinds of things you want a fact for, so the likelihood that > such a capability would be useful seems small.
they are also usable in running manifests using puppet apply on nodes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
