Jira (FACT-614) Create structured operating system fact

[William Hopper (JIRA)]

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William Hopper created an issue   Facter / FACT-614 Create structured operating system fact Issue Type: New Feature Assignee: William Hopper Created: 07/Jul/14 11:01 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: William Hopper Currently, there are several facts related to operating system based data, including: operatingsystem operatingsystemmajrelease operatingsystemrelease osfamily Also, there are a handful of lsb* facts for Linux systems, including: lsbdistcodename lsbdistdescription lsbdistid lsbdistrelease lsbmajdistrelease lsbrelease These combined are a good candidate for a structured fact. Output for this fact could appear as follows (on a Linux system): { "osfamily" => Debian, "operatingsystem" => Debian, "release" => { "operatingsystemrelease" => 7.4, "operatingsystemmajrelease" => 7 }, "lsb" => { "lsbdistid" => Debian, "lsbdistcodename" => wheezy, "lsbdistdescription" => Debian GNU/Linux 7.4 (wheezy), "lsbdistrelease" => 7.4, "lsbmajdistrelease" => 7 } } Backwards compatibility with existing flat facts should be maintained. The naming of this structured fact is also under consideration. Add Comment   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/d/optout.