On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:35 PM, Paul Nasrat wrote:
On 10 March 2010 03:56, Nigel Kersten <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Luke Kanies
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:09 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
{
"facts": {
"network": {
"interface": "eth0",
"ip": "192.168.0.1",
"netmask": "255.255.255.0",
},
"disk": {
"name": "sda1",
"size": "1000",
}
},
}
Yep, that's pretty much what I was proposing. I'm a big fan of
structured stdin/stdout interfaces for quick extensibiility (and
JSON).
We could start by doing something that supports non-datastructured
facts now, and add datastructures later.
For now, it could just assert in the code that the type of each
hash
key was a string or int.
I concur on the basic plan.
I'd add that having some plain data, like /etc/facter.d/foo,
wouldn't be all
bad, either, so you could just statically declare facts.
++
I reckon something like:
/etc/facter/facter.conf (main config file)
/var/lib/facter/data.d/ (plain text files containing fact values)
/var/lib/facter/plugins.d/ (foreign language executables returning
fact values)
The natural location for all these things differs across platforms,
so
it should be added to the install.rb script to make them
configurable... http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/3361
I'd also love to move the default search path logic not to be
$LOAD_PATH.collect { |d| File.join(d, "facter") }, so we can have a
sensible (ie not everything under util/) hierachy for facter's core
functionality. But that's probably a breaking change, but we can
safely add say a configurable location for native facts in parallel
with config, key/value fact files and executable fact files.
Can you explain in more detail what you mean here?
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language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may
be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals.
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