Issue #15596 has been reported by Andrew Parker.
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Feature #15596: External fact location should be configurable via an
environment variable
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15596
Author: Andrew Parker
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
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Category:
Target version: 2.0.0
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Affected Facter version:
Right now the external facts are hard coded to two directories (on unix) and
one directory (on windows). The user has no control over these unless they pass
a command line argument to facter. However, the command line argument can only
specify a single directory. This makes it a less than ideal user experience
when trying to use facter as a systems tool.
Instead of these hard coded paths and a single way of overriding, we should
change it so that facter uses an environment variable as a path of directories
to look for external facts.
export FACTER_PATH=/usr/share/facts:/usr/local/facts
facter # will look in /usr/share/facts first and then in /usr/local/facts.
Any facts that are found earlier in the path are more important than facts
found later in the path.
Open questions:
* What should be done if `FACTER_PATH` is not set?
* If we have `FACTER_PATH`, then do we need any command line options for
controlling the path?
* If there are command line options, how do they interact with a set
`FACTER_PATH`
* Can a user effectively remove all external facts if they set
`FACTER_PATH=''`?
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