Hi Marcus,
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Markus Falb <markus.f...@fasel.at> wrote:
> 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.
I actually misspoke here. The architecture fact would either be x86 or
the underlying hardwaremodel. On the example hardware you gave you'd
see:
architecture => x64
hardwaremodel => x64
But if the hardwaremodel was i686 you'd see:
architecture => x86
hardwaremodel => i686
>>
>> 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
So that's the thing... On "Debian", "Gentoo", "GNU/kFreeBSD",
"Ubuntu", facter would report your architecture as 'amd64' [1][2][3]
I think it really comes down to what does the system report its
architecture to be, and have facter match that. Doing so enables
things like:
package { "splunk":
ensure => "installed",
source => "N:\\software\\splunk-4.2.4-110225-${::architecture}-release.msi",
}
With that said, I have seen both x64 and amd64 packages for Windows,
and less so x86_64. Just a random sampling, but ActivePython has
downloads for Linux x86_64 and Windows x64
(ActivePython-2.7.2.5-win64-x64.msi). By no means conclusive, but I'd
love to have more data points.
Josh
[1] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11511
[2] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4980
[3] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6470
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Josh Cooper
Developer, Puppet Labs
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