You can have multiple resolutions for a single fact, and use fact
precedence to determine which ones should be used first.
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html#fact-precedence has the
details on this.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:24 PM, rjl <rjlin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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