On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 12:07:22 PM UTC-5, Wolf Noble wrote: > > > Well, the motivation behind this is easy collaboration. All my modules > really care about is lsbmajdistrelease and > lsbdistid/osfamily/operatingsystem. > Stepping back a bit though, the underlying question is what's the best way > to determine what major version of the OS is running. > > lsbmajdistrelease is currently part of core, and one could expect it to > exist on any (linux) node that has puppet installed, unlike a custom > site-specific fact which would work fine for us, but not so well > collaboratively. > > Expanding the listed lsb facts' functionality to provide the information > that can be derived in the absence of the lsb_release script doesn't seem > like an overstep to me, but I'm happy to concede that there may be a better > direction to go. I'd be equally satisfied (maybe even slightly happier) if > operatingsystemmajrelease was added to current facter to accompany > operatingsystemrelease. > >
For data that are derived from facts that are already presented to Puppet, you can easily create pseudo-facts such as you describe. For example, put this in your site.pp, outside and before any node blocks: $os_release_parts = split($operatingsystemrelease, '[.]') $operatingsystemmajrelease = $os_release_parts[0] Then use $::operatingsystemmajrelease anywhere in any of your manifests, or even in hiera, as if it were a client-provided fact. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
