On 4.6.2012 18:42, Josh Cooper wrote: > We recently fixed the hardwaremodel and architecture facts on Windows > as they were always returning i386[1]. The change will be in the > upcoming 1.6.10 release of Facter[2]. The new behavior is that > hardwaremodel will return something like i686, ia64, x64, etc, while > the architecture fact will return either x86 or x64. > > Since the new behavior will likely affect puppet users that are trying > to write manifests to select the appropriate package architecture, I'm > writing to get feedback on this. In particular, is 'x64' the least > surprising option? Some examples where this x64 is used: > > Windows Server x64 > splunk-4.2.4-110225-x64-release.msi > java_ee_sdk-6u4-jdk7-windows-x64.exe > > Or would you expect the architecture to be 'amd64' or 'x86_64'?
I don't use puppet on windows user (yet), but I would expect that fact values were consistent across operatingsystems. On a 64 bit amd cpu with linux I get $ facter hardwaremodel architecture architecture => x86_64 hardwaremodel => x86_64 -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb
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