Puppet users - Dec 2007 - One more HEAD foible against our config

One more error/warning from the latest Puppet from git:

In the provider I have

KEYS = Facter.value(:roothome) + "/.ssh/authorized_keys"

Puppet::Type.type(:authorizedkey).provide(:parsed,
...


I get an error on the Puppetmaster:
Could not autoload
"/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/authorizedkey/parsed.rb":
undefined method `+'' for nil:NilClass
Could not autoload
"/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/authorizedkey/parsed.rb":
undefined method `+'' for nil:NilClass

It''s still working (custom fact roothome is /root).  On the client,
debug lines let me see that the type is retrieving the custom fact
correctly.  After all, the type runs on the client.

The custom fact roothome.rb lives in $libdir/facts ($factpath) as
before.


Regards,
Derek
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On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:46 AM, <Derek.Whayman@barclayscapital.com>  
<Derek.Whayman@barclayscapital.com> wrote:
> One more error/warning from the latest Puppet from git:
>
> In the provider I have
>
> KEYS = Facter.value(:roothome) + "/.ssh/authorized_keys"
>
> Puppet::Type.type(:authorizedkey).provide(:parsed,
> ...
>
>
> I get an error on the Puppetmaster:
> Could not autoload
>
"/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/authorizedkey/parsed.rb":
> undefined method `+'' for nil:NilClass
> Could not autoload
>
"/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/authorizedkey/parsed.rb":
> undefined method `+'' for nil:NilClass
>
> It''s still working (custom fact roothome is /root).  On the
client,
> debug lines let me see that the type is retrieving the custom fact
> correctly.  After all, the type runs on the client.
>
> The custom fact roothome.rb lives in $libdir/facts ($factpath) as
> before.
So, the problem here is that nothing on the server is loading facts  
from the fact path.

The strange thing is that I can''t think of anything that would have  
done so in 0.23.2, either, so I kinda hope this isn''t working in  
older code.

At this point, I''m considering this not a bug I''m planning on
fixing,
with the idea that the factpath is only for the client.  The server  
really doesn''t need more than a few facts, so this shouldn''t
be a
problem.

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