Issue #5130 has been updated by Adrien Thebo. Status changed from Accepted to Closed
---------------------------------------- Bug #5130: Unable to reliably use Facter as a lib in ruby programs https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5130 Author: Michael Stahnke Status: Closed Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: 2.0.0 Keywords: Branch: Affected Facter version: When using facter as a ruby library, it behaves in somewhat unpredictable ways. We were trying to load some facts into an LDAP directory and ran into the issue of some facts being nil. I wrote up the simplest case I could think of below. I tried enabling debugging in facter and it wasn't of much use. (This is facter 1.5.8 from EPEL on RHEL 5.5 i386) A basic case here. <pre> require 'facter' shortname = Facter.value('hostname') puts shortname lsb = Facter.value('lsbdistdescription') puts lsb </pre> Output <pre>sbox03 nil</pre> In this case, the only thing I do is call the .to_hash method. Notice I don't even utilize the hash in the code in any other way. Obviously calling the .to_hash method does some thing that populates this lsb fact for the remainder of the program. Code <pre> require facter shortname = Facter.value('hostname') puts shortname hsh = Facter.to_hash lsb = Facter.value('lsbdistdescription') puts lsb </pre> Output <pre> sbox03 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga) </pre> -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
