That's exactly how I use the facter facts, my classes aren't terribly complex,
most of my usage is in the subtle differences, service names, file locations,
etc.
SL is like CentOS, pretty much a respin sans the Redhat trademarks and such.
For my current purposes it's exactly the same which is the reason I'm asking.
Regards
Johan
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From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [puppet-users@googlegroups.com] on behalf
of Luke Bigum [luke.bi...@lmax.com]
Sent: 14 October 2011 10:05
To: Puppet Users
Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: Redhat and Scientific Linux
It depends on the complexity of your classes.
For a lot of the time you can use variables for the difference between
operating systems and then use conditional logic to populate those
variables, like:
$pkg = $operatingsystem ? {
'RedHat' => "woof",
'Fedora' => "meow",
}
package { $pkg: }
I've never used Scientific Linux though so I don't know how much it
differs from Red Hat. If you have to start doing very different things
between OS versions, some people prefer to conditionally include sub
classes that are geared towards an individual OS:
class stuff {
if ($operatingsystem == 'Fedora') {
include stuff::fedora
} elsif ($operatingsystem == 'RedHat') {
include stuff::redhat
}
} else {
fail("The OS ${operatingsystem} is not supported by the 'stuff'
class.")
}
}
On Oct 14, 7:16 am, Johan Sunnerstig <johan.sunners...@auriga.se>
wrote:
> Hello.
> We're running a mix of Redhat and SL, for the same reasons I would guess many
> others do, which is to say it saves us money on "misc" servers where support
> contracts, ISV/IHV certification and so forth aren't needed.
>
> I'm curious about how others handle this with regards to Facter and OS
> detection in manifests? Do you simply add cases for $operatingsystem =
> Scientific?
>
> Regards
> Johan
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