That sounds promising. I'm currently using the EPEL repository to install 
Puppet, and they're at 1.6.0.
I guess I'll have to decide what's less trouble, installing Puppet some other 
way or rewriting a bunch of manifests. :)

Thanks
Johan
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From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [puppet-users@googlegroups.com] on behalf 
of Steve Traylen [steve.tray...@cern.ch]
Sent: 14 October 2011 10:19
To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Redhat and Scientific Linux

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Luke Bigum <luke.bi...@lmax.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>>

The recently released facter contains  a new fact $osfamily

Facter 1.6.2. available

##New fact: (6792) Added osfamily fact.

   Added osfamily fact to determine if a given operating system is a
   derivative of a common operating system.

this is equal to redhat for redhat, centos, sl, slc, slf, sld, ...

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