It's worth noting that Facter is no longer really maintained as a Ruby application. It's now a C++ application.
Today you can use a recent version of Puppet with the last version of Facter released as a pure Ruby application. This means that for the most part, all you need to get working to get Puppet functional on AIX is Ruby (and maybe some native gems that need to be compiled). Eventually, one would assume recent versions of Puppet will start requiring more recent versions of Facter, written in C++, and you'll have figure out how to compile that for AIX. You're probably going to have a bad time :) I'm a huge fan of Puppet Open Source, but if you are trying to run Puppet on AIX, Puppet Enterprise is really your best bet. On Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 5:59:50 AM UTC-8, Jean-Francois Gratton wrote: > > That was a fast answer, Michael, I appreciate. > > > > I’ll have a go at it this week and will report on how much fun it was :-) > > > > I don't mind building stuff, actually (although on AIX that'd be a first > for me : let's double the fun !). > > > Regarding PE, I wouldn't mind, provided I can get the buy-in from > Management; I'm having an expanded PoC with the Community version, and, if > it succeeds I'll try to pressure Management to get the funds and from there. > > > Regards, > > > > --Jeff > > On Monday, 2 November 2015 15:33:51 UTC-5, Jean-Francois Gratton wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've looked around to find an answer, all I could find seemed to be badly >> outdated. >> >> I'm looking to either sources or binaries to get a Puppet 3.8.x agent >> working on AIX 7.x . >> >> I understand I might get into dependency hell, or whatnot. I don't mind; >> I don't mind having to build my own ruby/puppet/facter/ssl stack if it's >> absolutely needed. >> >> >> Any pointers on where I could get an answer ? As I said, everything I've >> found seemed to be quite outdated (either old Puppet version, or older AIX >> version, sometimes both). >> >> Regards, >> >> --Jeff >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/23eb1a20-fbd9-42c5-becf-5149a37a8b03%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
