[Puppet-dev] Re: Facter config file

2016-05-23 Thread Henrik Lindberg
On 23/05/16 22:06, Eric Sorenson wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, Henrik Lindberg wrote: I would very much like to be able to type facts using the puppet type system. While this could be done in other places, a Facter config would be very useful to have server side when compiling as the compiler can

Re: [Puppet-dev] Re: Facter config file

2016-05-23 Thread Eric Sorenson
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, Henrik Lindberg wrote: I would very much like to be able to type facts using the puppet type system. While this could be done in other places, a Facter config would be very useful to have server side when compiling as the compiler can then validate against such a

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-05-23 Thread Eric Sorenson
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, Trevor Vaughan wrote: R.I., did I just hear you make a suggestion for writing fact DDL files? Not sure how I feel about that, they're a pain to deal with and confuse users. The features that I would like to add my vote for: * Fact TTLs * Custom fact execution timeouts *

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-05-23 Thread Eric Sorenson
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Eric Sorenson wrote: I've been thinking about a config file for Facter, which has historically not been run-time configurable. A little thread necromancy here, as I finally got back to this and started working into a real proposal as Puppet RFC 24, Facter Config File. WIP