Jira (FACT-3077) Inconsistent values coming from facter-ng output

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Selvakumar Azhagarsami (Jira)

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Facter / Bug FACT-3077
Inconsistent values coming from facter-ng output
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Issue Type: Bug Bug
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Created: 2021/10/04 11:38 PM
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Facter & Facter-ng version:
{code:java}
[root@pepm facts.d]# /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/facter --version
3.14.18 (commit 92e6f64d36589c8a537d4a4d5c574c872c3aa329) {code}
{code:java}
[root@pepm facts.d]# /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/facter-ng --version
4.2.1 {code}
 

The output of the `Puppet` command shows the inconsistent value and for boolean value `false` the result is showing as empty.

 

 

 

Selvakumar Azhagarsami (Jira)

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Facter & Facter-ng version:
{code:java}
[root@pepm facts.d]# /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/facter --version
3.14.18 (commit 92e6f64d36589c8a537d4a4d5c574c872c3aa329) {code}
{code:java}
[root@pepm facts.d]# /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/facter-ng --version
4.2.1 {code}
 

The output of the ` * Puppet ` * command shows the inconsistent value and the result for the boolean value `false` the result is showing as empty string .

 Below are the steps to reproduce and the output:

   1) Created an external fact:
{code:java}
[root@pepm facts.d]# cat /etc/facter/facts.d/build_information.yaml
---
key1: true
key2: false {code}
   2) Output of the *Puppet* command shows the empty result boolean value `false`
{code:java}
[root@pepm facts.d]# puppet facts show --facterng key1 key2
2021-10-05 05:45:07.491417 WARN  puppetlabs.facter - locale environment variables were bad; continuing with LANG=C LC_ALL=C
{
  "key1": true,
  "key2": ""
}

[root@pepm facts.d]# puppet facts show key1 key2
2021-10-05 05:45:24.325235 WARN  puppetlabs.facter - locale environment variables were bad; continuing with LANG=C LC_ALL=C
{
  "key1": true,
  "key2": false
}{code}
  

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Jeremy Mozes (Jira)

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Jeremy Mozes commented on Bug FACT-3077

Gabriel Nagy Hello, do we know if this bug is also in Puppet 7/PE 2021?

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Release Notes Summary: Fix inconsistency between facter3 and facter4 for boolean values

Jeremy Mozes (Jira)

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Re: Inconsistent values coming from facter-ng output

Selvakumar Azhagarsami or Gabriel Nagy Hi, do you know if this bug is also in PE 2021?

Selvakumar Azhagarsami (Jira)

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Oct 15, 2021, 1:09:03 AM10/15/21
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Jeremy Mozes I just did a quick test in my lab PE 2021.3.0 machine.

[root@pe-server-262baf-0 facts.d]# facter -p pe_build
 
2021.3.0
 
 
 
 
 
[root@pe-server-262baf-0 facts.d]# /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/facter --version
 
4.2.2
 
 
 
 
 
[root@pe-server-262baf-0 facts.d]# /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/facter-ng --version
 
-bash: /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/facter-ng: No such file or directory 

[root@pe-server-262baf-0 facts.d]# puppet facts show --facterng key1 key2
 
Error: Could not parse application options: invalid option: --facterng
 
Did you mean?  facts-terminus
 
 
 
[root@pe-server-262baf-0 facts.d]# puppet facts show key1 key2
 
{
 
  "key1": true,
 
  "key2": ""
 
}

Jeremy Mozes (Jira)

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Jeremy Mozes commented on Bug FACT-3077

Selvakumar Azhagarsami Thank you for the update, good to know. Do we happen to know what version of PE/Facter that facter-ng was deprecated?  One of our customers relies on facter-ng and I want to make sure that we are able to identify at what point facter-ng is no longer available.  I've looke through release notes for facter, Puppet 6 and 7 and do not see any mention of facter-ng being removed.  If you have some information on when it was removed or if you know where to find that information that would be very helpful.  Thanks!

Gabriel Nagy (Jira)

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Gabriel Nagy commented on Bug FACT-3077

Jeremy Mozes, PE 2019.8.x ships with Facter 3 by default. Facter 4 (known as facter-ng in PE 2019.8.x) can be activated by setting facterng to true in the puppet.conf file. To my knowledge it will not be deprecated, it's just a way for customers to be able to opt-in to use Facter 4 while on PE 2019.

In PE 2021, Facter 4 is shipped by default.

Jeremy Mozes (Jira)

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Selvakumar Azhagarsami Gabriel Nagy The output above indicates the bug also exists in 2021 correct?

Jeremy Mozes (Jira)

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Selvakumar Azhagarsami Thanks, do we think this will be resolved in 2021.4 or is there a plan of action to resolve the bug?

Ciprian Badescu (Jira)

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Fix Version/s: FACT 4.2.6

Erwin Solis (Jira)

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Re: Inconsistent values coming from facter-ng output

T-Mobile was hoping to see his fixed in 2019.8.9 so I just want to pile on that LTS customers have a need.

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