Jira (FACT-149) Implement UUID fact

[Jason Antman (JIRA)]

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Jason Antman commented on an issue   Re: Implement UUID fact The UUID fact was added to facter in 3d45e2b2b4 (from what I can tell, the 1.7.0 release) inside manufacturer.rb - this pulls from dmidecode under linux, and apparently similar facilities under other OSes. For cases that need an actually (globally, hopefully) unique ID, UUID should be used. In terms of what to do with 'uniqueid', I'll defer to FACT-198 which suggests renaming it to "hostid". Add Comment   Facter / FACT-149 Implement UUID fact Debian-based systems in particular (possibly others) ship with an /etc/hosts file that starts  127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 hostname.domain.tld hostname This is used to specify the FQDN of the machine independently of its physical IP address, and I believe their expectation is that you are not required to change this. However, this breaks the host... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.