Jira (FACT-475) Default external-dir should be exposed as a core fact

[Maggie Dreyer (JIRA)]

Maggie Dreyer updated an issue

Facter / FACT-475 Default external-dir should be exposed as a core fact Change By: Maggie Dreyer Labels: triaged Add Comment

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[Branan Riley (JIRA)]

Branan Riley commented on FACT-475

Re: Default external-dir should be exposed as a core fact We've supported pluginsync of external facts for a while (though I think we didn't back when you filed this). If there are use-cases that doesn't cover, feel free to re-open this.

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[Steve Traylen (JIRA)]

Steve Traylen commented on FACT-475

Re: Default external-dir should be exposed as a core fact

Hi, Yes we have a use case.We calculate facts within manifests to deploy static files. e.g.   $bar = some_function($::fqdn)   file{'/etc/facter/facts.d/myfact.txt': ensure => present, content => "foo=${bar}\n" } Having a fact for /etc/facter/facts.d would avoid us having to hard code that path. The obvious question is why bother to write the fact foo given we already have it's value during the compilation. We use the fact value from puppetdb for inventory calculations.

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[Steve Traylen (JIRA)]

Steve Traylen commented on FACT-475

Re: Default external-dir should be exposed as a core fact

Currently not even '/etc/puppetlabs' is available as a fact, that would probably do.

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[Branan Riley (JIRA)]

Branan Riley commented on FACT-475

Re: Default external-dir should be exposed as a core fact

Steve Traylen Do you mind adding your use-case to FACT-1640? That seems like a good place to centralize this sort of thing.

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[Claudia Petty (Jira)]

Claudia Petty updated an issue

Facter / FACT-475

Default external-dir should be exposed as a core fact

Change By: Claudia Petty Labels: new-feature

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