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> On 8/18/2011 12:08 PM, Gary Larizza wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Darren Chamberlain
> > <dar...@boston.com> wrote:
> > > $operatingsystem is a facter variable, of course.  How are these
> > > supposed to be referenced?
> >
> > They're referenced like this:  $::operatingsystem
> 
> This works, thanks.
> 
> While I haven't tested using facts in templates yet,
> http://blog.penumbra.be/2011/08/dynamic-lookup-is-deprecated-when-using-facts-in-templates/
> implies that I'm going to have the same problem there, as well.
>  Tom's solution is really unwieldy, though, and having to create local
> variables for every fact in every class that calls a template is
> going to lead to a lot of problems.

I concur, I think the way this change is exposed in templates is extremely 
user unfriendly, I'm personally avoiding moving to any version of puppet that
force me to lookupvar() every variable use in a template or to create a ton of
in-class variables as suggested

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