On 04 Aug 2015, at 00:39, Mike Reed <mjohn.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been trying to solve what seems to be a simple problem but have yet to
> find the answer.
>
> I'm trying to do a comparison between the value of a fact and some arbitrary
> value:
>
> if ($::class == 'workstation') and ($::kernelmajversion <= '3.11') {
You compare two strings.
Have you tried versioncmp function instead?
versioncmp($::kernelmajversion, ‘3.11’)
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html#versioncmp
> notify {"My Kernel version is <= ${kernel_test_version} and I'm going to
> upgrade" : }
>
> file {
> "/usr/src/linux-headers-${kernel_test_version}_${kernel_release_test_version}~precise1_all.deb"
> :
> mode => '755',
> ensure => 'present',
> source =>
> "puppet:///modules/kernel/${kernel_test_version}_${kernel_release_test_version}~precise1_all.deb"
> }
> }
>
> elsif ($::class == 'workstation') and ($::kernelmajversion >= '3.11') {
> notify {"My Kernel version is >= ${kernel_test_version} so I don't need
> to upgrade": }
> }
>
>
> After invoking a puppet run, I can never get the evaluation of "if" to
> actually take place and as a result, the elsif is invoked and regardless of
> whether or not the kernel version is <= 3.11, the "if" statement is never
> run. From what I gather, this means that the evaluation of "if" is never
> happening and the resulting elsif is automatically invoked.
>
> I've also seen some errors that pertain to string/float comparisons and to my
> knowledge, facter data is coming back as a string and my version number in
> the "if" statement (3.11) is a float and therefore can't be compared due to
> comparison rules of different data types.
>
> Does anybody have some words of wisdom that may lead me to the correct syntax
> for what I'm trying to achieve?
>
> Thanks in advance to the community for the help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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