Steve Traylen wrote: > 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, ...
One thing that might make this fact less useful for folks that have
both EL and Fedora systems is that Fedora is in the same osfamily.
That makes sense in some cases and not in others.
I've yet to start using this fact in my own manifests, so I'm not sure
whether I'll like it or not. :)
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