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

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-03-02 Thread R.I.Pienaar
> On 2 Mar 2016, at 21:16, 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. Not specifically. Types already have doc strings similar would

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-03-02 Thread Trevor Vaughan
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 * Fact execution timeouts * Fact parallelization

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-03-01 Thread R.I.Pienaar
> On 2 Mar 2016, at 03:45, Kylo Ginsberg wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:13 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: >> >> >>> On 1 Mar 2016, at 19:52, Eric Sorenson wrote: >>> >>> I've been thinking about a config file for Facter,

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-03-01 Thread Kylo Ginsberg
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Rob Nelson wrote: > On Tuesday, March 1, 2016, Matthew Gaspar wrote: > >> The only problem I sometimes encounter, which may be a usage issue on my >> part, is when creating custom facts sometimes it'd be nice to just run >>

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-03-01 Thread Kylo Ginsberg
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:13 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: > > > On 1 Mar 2016, at 19:52, Eric Sorenson > wrote: > > I've been thinking about a config file for Facter, which has historically > not been run-time configurable. > > The two problems in front of

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-03-01 Thread Rob Nelson
On Tuesday, March 1, 2016, Matthew Gaspar wrote: > The only problem I sometimes encounter, which may be a usage issue on my > part, is when creating custom facts sometimes it'd be nice to just run > `facter my_custom_fact` to get the output. If there would be some way to >

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-03-01 Thread R.I.Pienaar
> On 1 Mar 2016, at 19:52, Eric Sorenson wrote: > > I've been thinking about a config file for Facter, which has historically not > been run-time configurable. > > The two problems in front of me that seem applicable are: > > * Sometimes, certain facts are just

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-03-01 Thread Eric Sorenson
> On Mar 1, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Matthew Gaspar wrote: > > A config file for facter is intriguing to me. > > Would this solely be used to change behaviors when running facter, or do you > see some potential for defining some facts within the config itself? I think it'd be

[Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-03-01 Thread Eric Sorenson
I've been thinking about a config file for Facter, which has historically not been run-time configurable. The two problems in front of me that seem applicable are: * Sometimes, certain facts are just plain bad to collect and users would like to prevent them from even being resolved (see