Puppet users - Dec 2011 - Announce: Facter 1.6.4rc1 Available

Facter 1.6.4rc1 is a maintenance release candidate containing fixes, updates and
refactoring.  It resolves issues #10885, #11041, #10490, and #10444.  Full
release notes below.

Please note that #11041 changes the dependencies for building or
installing Facter on linux systems.
Without dmidecode, certain facts could contain less than truthful values.

This release is available for download at:
 http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/facter/facter-1.6.4rc1.tar.gz

See the Verifying Puppet Download section at:
 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Downloading_Puppet#Verifying+Puppet+Downloads

Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs Redmine site, using an
affected version of 1.6.4rc1:
 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/

Full Release Notes at: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/wiki/Wiki

# Facter 1.6.4rc1 Release Notes

Fix #11041 Add dmidecode as a requirement for rpm

    We were implicitly relying on dmidecode to determine certain facts
    without being certain that it was installed.  This change to the rpm
    spec file will ensure we have dmidecode pulled in by rpm/yum as a
    dependency and thus causing the correct functionality on facter.

    Note this change only impacts EL based systems.  The debian packaging is
    handled in another repository.

Fix #10885 Malformed facter.bat when ruby dir contains backreferences

    Previously, we were substituting occurrences of <ruby> and
<command>
    in the Windows batch wrapper scripts with the corresponding
    paths. However,the gsub replacement string was not escaped, so if a
    path contained something that looked like a backreference,
    e.g. C:\ruby\187, the gsub would try to replace the backreference with
    the corresponding capture group. Since there aren''t any capture
    groups, the backreference was stripped from resulting facter.bat,
    resulting in an invalid path, C:\ruby87\bin\facter.

    This commit eliminates the need for gsub, since paths can contain
    other characters that have special meaning in a regexp, e.g.
''.''.

    It also writes the bat file in ''text'' mode so that the
resulting file
    has ''\r\n'' line endings.

Fix #10490 Handle case where no macaddress can be found
Feature #10444 Add identification of system boards to Facter

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