booleans in hiera

[Peter Brown]

Hi everyone,

I have a few boolean vars i use in a couple of modules I am updating to work with hiera.

I noticed there is currently an issue with using booleans in hiera and puppet doesn't set them properly when it imports them as variables.

I also noticed those bugs seem to have fixes and they also seem to have been committed.

I am currently considering rewriting the modules that use booleans but I would prefer to wait for the fixes.

Can anyone tell me when they will be released and which version will they go into?

Thanks.

Pete.

[Ellison Marks]

3.0.2 should have fixed this issue for the puppet backend. I think the YAML backend had this fixed ages ago. Go ahead and give it a try, perhaps on a test machine. It should work.

[Brad Ison]

I recently ran into Bug #18234 [1], wherein boolean values in hashes
don't work as expected.

There's a patch available for that. No idea when it's expected to be
merged, but I can confirm it's *not* in 3.0.2.


1. http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/18234

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Brad

[Ellison Marks]

Hmm, I didn't know that. I think I missed that by passing the hash wholesale to my template and accessing it there.