Issue #15350 has been updated by Ken Barber.
Its not garbage Ryan, these are node anchors - and its valid YAML. It can be solved by us dup'ing the facter values - I've tried it in the past, but you need to be mindful that YAML is for machine readability at the end of the day. <http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2785586> ---------------------------------------- Bug #15350: Fact, when output as yaml produce inconsistent values that look like *id00X https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15350#change-66246 Author: Ryan Coleman Status: Rejected Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: Keywords: facter amazon ec2 Branch: Affected Facter version: 1.6.7 [root@ip-10-161-19-135 puppet-enterprise]# facter --version 1.6.7 [root@ip-10-161-19-135 puppet-enterprise]# cat /etc/system-release Amazon Linux AMI release 2011.09 I initially discovered this problem with osfamily when output as yaml but it looks like many other facts return garbage, inconsistently. <pre> [root@ip-10-161-19-135 puppet-enterprise]# facter --yaml | grep *id memorysize: *id001 kernelrelease: *id002 osfamily: *id003 [root@ip-10-161-19-135 puppet-enterprise]# facter --yaml | grep *id osfamily: *id001 operatingsystemrelease: *id002 memorysize: *id003 [root@ip-10-161-19-135 puppet-enterprise]# facter --yaml | grep *id osfamily: *id001 memorysize: *id002 kernelrelease: *id003 [root@ip-10-161-19-135 puppet-enterprise]# facter --yaml | grep *id kernel: *id001 memorysize: *id002 operatingsystemrelease: *id003 </pre> To Reproduce: * Create an EC2 instance with the 2011.09 Amazon Linux (I used ami-951945d0) * Install PE 2.5.1 ( I installed Agent only role, just wanted Facter) * Execute `facter --yaml` and look for facts whose values start with *id Addendum: While I initially discovered this on Amazon, I can reproduce when running Facter 1.6.7 from source on my MBP (10.7.3). Simply execute facter --yaml -- 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.
