Henrik Lindberg hlindberg

Facter 1.7.3 Release Notes

For the full detail of closed issues specific to 1.7.3 see this list in Redmine, containing no new features, and 10 bugs closed, the majority for Windows.

12116: Windows domain and fqdn facts error when there is no domain.
16665: [windows] wrong ipaddress with locale != en
16668: [windows] ipaddress fact reports hostname
20989: Facter 1.7.1 on 32 bit windows reports architecture fact as "i1586", should be "x86"
21518: "interface" fact not available on windows 2003
21533: Facter prints errors to stderr on precise and f18

Private Data in Modules

Some modules have an requirements on an internal / private way of binding data using its own private hierarchy and mechanisms for binding keys to values. The key feature here is that the structure of this data is private to the module, externally it is possible to override the keys/parameters but then based on decisions in a hierarchy/using categories that are applicable at the site level and across all modules. As an example, one module may use a custom fact and need to use this in its hierarchical data. Without a private hierarchy, this "private category" would need to be configured and placed in relation to all other categories. While doable, this is not desirable when a module has complex needs.

The Puppet bindings system (ARM-9 'data in modules') combines all bindings from all sources into an overall hierarchy, and in this article it is shown how you can support a private data hierarchy by using the binding systems Ruby integration in combination with Hier

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<cq:componentQuery xmlns:cq="http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster/CQuery-1.0" resourceMap="geppetto.rmap">
	<cq:rootRequest name="org.cloudsmith.geppetto.product" componentType="eclipse.feature"/>
	<cq:property key="source.repository.url" value="git://github.com/cloudsmith/geppetto.git"/>
	<cq:property key="target.arch" value="*"/>
	<cq:property key="target.os" value="*"/>
	<cq:property key="target.ws" value="*"/>
	<cq:advisorNode useMaterialization="false" useTargetPlatform="false"/>
	</cq:componentQuery>

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ASCII"?>
	<xmi:XMI xmi:version="2.0" xmlns:xmi="http://www.omg.org/XMI" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:pptp="http://www.cloudsmith.org/geppetto/1.0.0/PPTP">
	<pptp:PuppetDistribution description="Puppet Plugin" version="1.0.0rc1" label="puppetlabs-hiera-puppet">
	<functions documentation="" name="hiera" rValue="true"/>
	<functions documentation="" name="hiera_array" rValue="true"/>
	<functions documentation="" name="hiera_hash" rValue="true"/>
	<functions documentation="" name="hiera_include"/>
	</pptp:PuppetDistribution>
	</xmi:XMI>

	.MTrimmedWindow {
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	margin-left: 2px;
	margin-right: 2px;
	}

	.MPartStack {
	swt-tab-renderer: null;
	swt-selected-tabs-background: #FFFFFF #E8E8E8 100%;

	Process: Geppetto [12470]
	Path: /Users/USER/*/Geppetto.app/Contents/MacOS/Geppetto
	Identifier: org.eclipse.eclipse
	Version: 3.8 (3.8)
	Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
	Parent Process: launchd [147]

	Date/Time: 2012-08-22 23:07:47.840 +0200
	OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53)
	Report Version: 9

	./systest.rb -c ~/harness_work/config.yml --puppet "origin/master" --type package --ntp --ntp-server us.pool.ntp.org --root-keys --no-color --xml --debug --tests "template/PassTest.rb" --pkg-repo
	Using Config /Users/henrik/harness_work/config.yml
	Begin setup/early/00-vmrun.rb

	Revert VMs
	Skip: Skipping revert VM step
	setup/early/00-vmrun.rb skipped in 0.00 seconds
	Begin setup/early/01-gen-answer-file.rb
	Skip: Skipping PE 2.x answers file generation for non PE tests
	setup/early/01-gen-answer-file.rb skipped in 0.00 seconds

	If you want to install Geppetto into your Eclipse IDE, you can do so by giving the Eclipse update manager this repository URL

	http://download.cloudsmith.com/geppetto/updates

	Please note that this URL is for use by a download manager - it is not meaningful to visit this URL with a browser.

	Puppet 3.3.0 Release Notes
	==========================
	For the full list of closed issues specific to 3.3.0 see [this list in Redmine](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/versions/401), containing 17 new features, and 67 bugs closed.

	New Features
	------------

	#### #2628: It would be useful if node name regexps set $1
	It is now possible to use the variables `$0` to `$n` regular expression match-variables set when using a regular expression node-name in a node declaration.