-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oliver Hookins wrote: > On Tue Mar 10, 2009 at 16:13:40 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: >> This allows operatingsystemrelease to properly determine the release for >> various Red Hat based distros, including the point portion of the >> release.
> Ahh! That breaks the behaviour I was trying to fix by reporting the > inconsistency. So now instead of having releases numbered 3, 4, 5 across the > board it could well end up 3.8, 4.6, 5.3 etc which in my opinion is much > harder to make use of since Puppet conditionals don't support substring > matching. > > I'm not sure what to suggest though, but I guess there are a few > alternatives: > * limit $operatingsystemrelease output to only the major release integer > * allow point release output with $operatingsystemrelease, and create a new > variable $operatingsystemmajrelease which only contains the major release > integer > * allow point release output with $operatingsystemrelease and add substring > matching of variables in conditionals in puppet > > Your thoughts? Ditto. We've back and forth'ed on this in the past. I don't like the point release in the $operatingsystemrelease fact so I probably back option 1 above. I think you'll find this patch will break a lot of people's configurations. Regards James - -- Author of: * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/) * Hardening Linux (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594444/) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJtudx9hTGvAxC30ARAgnKAKCPB/nsZ/X2RkUJgqtZc1YfvBai+wCgrkWY g+pLk9Vvrw8ecw+vcH/7DzM= =CJwc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
