Facter 1.6.10rc1 is a maintenance release candidate in the 1.6.x branch with bug fixes.
It includes contributions from Hailee Kenney, Josh Cooper, Jeff Weiss, Stefan Shulte, and Moses Mendoza. This release is available for download at: https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/facter/facter-1.6.10rc1.tar.gz https://apt.puppetlabs.com https://yum.puppetlabs.com See the Verifying Puppet Download section at: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Downloading_Puppet#Verifying+Puppet+Downloads Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs Redmine site, using an affected version of 1.6.10rc1: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/ Release Notes at: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/wiki/Wiki Facter 1.6.10rc1 Highlights ====================== (#10261) Detect x64 architecture on Windows Previously, the hardwaremodel fact was using RbConfig::CONFIG['host_cpu'] for Windows, but this returns i686 on a 64-bit OS, which is incorrect. And this caused the architecture fact to be reported as i386, which is also wrong. This commit updates the hardwaremodel fact on Windows to return the appropriate cpu model, e.g. x64, i686, etc. Based on that, the architecture fact will either be x86 or x64, and can be used to install architecture-specific packages, e.g. splunk-4.2.4-110225-x64-release.msi. (#13678) Allow passing shell built-ins to exec method on windows The former exec method tried to run the command on windows no matter wether it could be found on the filesystem or not. This allowed end users to run shell-builtins with the exec method. The new exec method always tried to expand the binary first and returned nil if the binary was not found. This commit now restores the old behaviour on windows: Even if we fail to expand the command, we will try to run the command in the exact same way as it was passed to the exec method in case it is indeed a shell built-in. But we will now raise a deprecation warning. Reason for deprecating this "even if we cannot find it, just run it" behaviour: We may want to predetermine the paths where facter tries to find binaries in the future. A fall back behaviour may then lead to strange results. Most built-ins can be expressed in pure ruby anyways. (#13678) Join PATHs correctly on windows On windows File.join joins with the File::SEPARATOR which is '/' on windows. While a lot of the windows API and the ruby filetests allow / as a separator we should use File::ALT_SEPARATOR ('\' on windows) to create pathnames on windows Facter 1.6.10rc1 Changelog =================== Josh Cooper (4) f42896d (#14764) Stub architecture fact when Windows facts run on Linux 964d1f0 (#12864) Close registry key ab025bb Revert "Revert "(#12864) Windows: get primary DNS from registry"" 478386d (#10261) Detect x64 architecture on Windows Hailee Kenney (1) b050eb1 (#14582) Fix noise in LSB facts Jeff Weiss (1) f44ca52 (maint) Fix hardware model fact for ruby 1.9 Stefan Shulte (12) 2043244 (#13678) Remove deprecation msg triggerd by the ipaddress6 fact d118d81 (#13678) Add filename extension on absolute paths on windows 85654b0 (#13678) Allow passing shell built-ins to exec method on windows 8f4c016 (#13678) Single quote paths on unix with spaces 2d164e8 (#13678) Join PATHs correctly on windows e7e7e8f (#13678) Extend spec tests for expand_command 0fea7b0 maint: Add shared context for specs to imitate windows or posix 60d0cd2 (#13678) Fix spec failures on windows 121a2ab (#13678) Fix quoting in expand_command 55b1125 (#13678) Add more unit tests for new methods 9086c0a (#13678) Add RDoc documentation for new methods 165ace4 (#13678) Convert command to absolute paths before executing Moses Mendoza(2) d6a3e91 Make package task depend on tar in Rakfile 6cc881d Use git describe in Rakefile to determine pkg ver -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
