Puppet users - Jan 2014 - Issues with Hiera command line usage with fact parameters

Hi List,

I am experimenting with different hiera hierarchy's through the hiera 
command line.  I am passing in different facts to simulate different nodes. 
 In the beginning I would manually pass them in as parameters on the 
command line after a while when I wanted to pass in more and more facts I 
decided to use the YAML scope file option.

This does not seem to work when I use the :: notation in the hieral.yaml 
under the hierarchy.  I have simplified my hierarchy to demonstrate the 
issue.  The relevant files look like:

**********************************************
$ ls -R
.:
facts.yaml  hiera.yaml  hieradata

./hieradata:
common.yaml  node

./hieradata/node:
creator.mgnt.local.yaml

**********************************************
 $ cat hiera.yaml
---
:backends:
  - yaml
:yaml:
  :datadir: ./hieradata
:hierarchy:
  - "node/%{::fqdn}"
  - common

**********************************************
$ cat hieradata/common.yaml
---
ip: '192.168.0.1'


**********************************************
$ cat hieradata/node/creator.mgnt.local.yaml
---
ip: '10.0.0.1'

**********************************************
$ cat facts.yaml
---
  fqdn: "creator.mgnt.local"

If I manually pass the facts on the command line it works

$ hiera -c hiera.yaml ip ::fqdn=creator.mgnt.local -d
DEBUG: 2014-01-09 22:19:48 +1100: Hiera YAML backend starting
DEBUG: 2014-01-09 22:19:48 +1100: Looking up ip in YAML backend
DEBUG: 2014-01-09 22:19:48 +1100: Looking for data source 
node/creator.mgnt.local
DEBUG: 2014-01-09 22:19:48 +1100: Found ip in node/creator.mgnt.local
10.0.0.1


However if I use a file which contains the facts it doesn't work

$ hiera -c hiera.yaml ip -y facts.yaml -d
DEBUG: 2014-01-09 22:26:31 +1100: Hiera YAML backend starting
DEBUG: 2014-01-09 22:26:31 +1100: Looking up ip in YAML backend
DEBUG: 2014-01-09 22:26:31 +1100: Looking for data source common
DEBUG: 2014-01-09 22:26:31 +1100: Found ip in common
192.168.0.1

In the facts file I have have tried it also declaring it like "::fqdn"
but
that also does not work.  Is there an option to bring the factor variables 
into the global scope?

Thanks,

Peter

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