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Hi all, I am creating a recipe for rhel boxes which needs to determine what type of install is present (server or client). I thought I would use the facter fact lsbdistid for this purpose but when I run "facter lsbdistid" from the command line nothing is returned. If I just run facter and grep for lsbdistid, what I am looking for is returned. Does anyone know why this might be?

...//projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/ Full Release Notes at: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/wiki/Wiki Facter 1.6.9rc1 Release Notes ====================== (#11511) Split lsb facts into multiple files If a fact is stored in a file that does not follow the convention $factname.rb we may encounter ordering and recursion issues as seen in bugreport #11511. The concrete example was - flush clears all facts - load_all is triggered to reload facts - inside an .rb file we query the operatingsystem fact directly (say outside a Facter.add block) - the...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all We''re currently looking at the next release of Facter and the future direction of the tool. I''d like to try and prompt some discussions on facter and what people want from it. As a starter here''s some (although not all) of the ideas we''ll be working through: 1. Namespaces - add a namespace or tiered

I read the guide at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/scope_and_puppet.htmland others'' mail, i am a little confused now, below is my understanding: 1. top scope only refers to site.pp, not include node definitions and facts. 2. in puppet class, using variables not local, must specify the namespace, like $class::variable, if it''s a top scope variable or a fact variable or a