Issue #11658 has been updated by Hailee Kenney. Assignee changed from Ken Barber to Hailee Kenney
---------------------------------------- Bug #11658: Noticed operatingsystemrelease isn't trying to use lsbdistrelease on Linux boxes https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11658#change-62462 Author: Joe McDonagh Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Hailee Kenney Category: library Target version: Keywords: Branch: Affected Facter version: 1.6.4 Causing some of my code to fail on the upcoming Ubuntu LTS 12.04. Basically it's got a ton of conditionals in this file, which I can see the utility of having in case LSB isn't available. However, I think the more clever, and proper way to handle this, is on Facter.value(:kernel) == "Linux", first try to use lsbdistrelease to fill in operatingsystemrelease if it's there, then fall back to these sort of rough around the edges determination methods if it's not available. This is what the fact operatingsystemrelease shows on my 12.04 test box: operatingsystemrelease => 3.2.0-2-generic This is cause it can't glean the info from /etc/issue (which is a pretty unreliable place to look for OS info) so it uses kernelrelease... I am kind of depending on a version here which is the other problem. Should this fact contain strings? I'd have a patch ready for you guys but I think this is a design question really... -- 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.
