Thanks ZJE. That is what I ended up doing.
On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 2:50:44 PM UTC-6, ZJE wrote:
>
> It may be best to hold your value in a temporary variable and just have
> the setcode run at the end. I can't remember where I read it, but I don't
> think ruby custom facts can override other ruby custom facts once they are
> set (thought I believe the FACTER_ environment variables can override ruby
> custom facts).
>
> On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:38:15 PM UTC-5, rjl wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I have a custom facts script that is distributed to all of my puppet
>> clients. This first thing this script does is read a file on the client to
>> determine the 'type' of server that it is. Later in the script, I would
>> like to change the value based on some additional information. I don't seem
>> to be able to modify the value of a fact once it has been set. For example
>>
>> Facter.add("server_type") do
>> setcode do
>> "apache_web_server"
>> end
>> end
>>
>> # Later I may want to change the value.
>>
>> if Facter.value("http_server") = "false"
>> # Change value of "server_type" here. I have tried many different
>> approaches but none work.
>> end
>>
>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>
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