On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>
>> Currently we only require Facter 1.5.0 for Puppet 0.25.x I believe.
>>
>> I have this patch I'm needing to do to fix the Process.groups= issue on
>> 10.6
>>
>> module Puppet::Util::SUIDManager
>>   include Puppet::Util::Warnings
>>   extend Forwardable
>>
>>   to_delegate_to_process = [ :euid=, :euid, :egid=, :egid,
>>                              :uid=, :uid, :gid=, :gid, :groups=, :groups ]
>>
>>   # *** Only needs to be done on 10.6 ****
>>   if Facter['kernel'].value == 'Darwin'
>>     to_delegate_to_process.delete(:groups=)
>>     # Process.groups= broken on 10.6 http://openradar.appspot.com/7791698
>>     # stub method out for OS X.
>>     def self.groups=(grouplist)
>>       return true
>>     end
>>   end
>>
>>   to_delegate_to_process.each do |method|
>>       def_delegator Process, method
>>       module_function method
>>   end
>>
>>   # *** Only needs to be done on 10.4 ****
>>   if Facter['kernel'].value == 'Darwin'
>>       # Cannot change real UID on Darwin so we set euid
>>       alias :uid :euid
>>       alias :gid :egid
>>   end
>>
>>
>> The problem is that the facts that let us distinguish between OS X
>> versions weren't introduced until Facter 1.5.5, and I don't want to
>> add some execs to shell out to 'sw_vers' to work it out, even if I
>> only do it conditionally for cases where the relevant fact isn't
>> there.
>>
>> Would anyone be really upset if I raised an exception here if you're
>> on OS X and have a Facter version < 1.5.5 ? I'm happy to make the
>> executive decision for OS X support that 1.5.5 is required, given the
>> core facts that were provided, but I understand if you all think
>> that's horrible having different version requirements for different
>> platforms.
>>
>> Don't stress too much about the actual stubbing out call, this will go
>> through normal code review soon.
>
> I'm comfortable with that - OS X is difficult enough without us being
> annoyingly conservative on versions.  I'm also usually happy to rev Facter
> when we rev Puppet.

Excellent.

I'd actually like to see us be a bit more aggressive about the
required Facter version for new Puppet releases.


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