Jira (FACT-198) Rename uniqueid hostid

[Jason Antman (JIRA)]

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Jason Antman commented on an issue   Re: Rename uniqueid hostid See specifically: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3926#note-4 and http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3926#note-6 The consensus in the Redmine ticket seemed to be: 1) people expected "uniqueid" to be globally unique on all OSes, but that's confusing, because in reality that's only true on Solaris, and it uses "hostid" elsewhere. The UUID fact ( FACT-149 , released in 1.7.0) is what people should be using. 2) This needs to be handled in a "major point release" (per Adrien, http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3926#note-9) ideally by copying "uniqueid" to "hostid" and adding a deprecation warning, and then removing it in a subsequent release. Does that sound right, and acceptable? Add Comment   Facter / FACT-198 Rename uniqueid hostid basing it on hostid is not nearly unique enough especially in a xen environment with duplicated machines and multiple instances of IPs and MACs. I'd suggest something like serial number from BIOS (works for dell, hp, ibm, etc - significant portion of all x86 machines) modified by the system time when facter was initially installed. 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.