On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:47 PM, donavan wrote:
> On Jan 19, 7:55 pm, Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sorry; I figured any information like that would be included in the
>> post. Aside from that question this patch is definitely +1 from me,
>> and I would prefer to see a version check and this behaviour as soon
>> as possible.
>
> On a related note, is there any standard method for setting provider
> behavior based on system features? In particular I'm thinking about
> interrogating system resources such as binary or package versions.
> I wrote a cups provider, but the lp* tools had major changes around
> version 1.2. I haven't gone back to finish it, but only thought of 2
> providers with a custom fact and "confine :cupsversion => ['1.2',
> '1.3', '1.4']".
The only method we have right now is facts, which you can use in the 'confine'
lines but not much else.
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