Jira (FACT-3114) operatingsystemrelease/operatingsystemmajrelease missing on Arch Linux

Tim Meusel (Jira)

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FACT-3114

operatingsystemrelease/operatingsystemmajrelease missing on Arch Linux

Issue Type:	Bug
Assignee:	Unassigned
Created:	2022/04/21 6:55 AM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Tim Meusel

Hi,
the legacy facts operatingsystemrelease/operatingsystemmajrelease are missing on Arch Linux:

[root@foo ~]# /root/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/bin/facter --show-legacy os

  architecture => "x86_64",

  distro => {

    codename => "n/a",

    description => "Arch Linux",

    id => "Arch",

    release => {

      full => "rolling",

      major => "rolling",

      minor => null

},

    specification => "n/a"

},

  family => "Archlinux",

  hardware => "x86_64",

  name => "Archlinux",

  release => {

    full => null,

    major => null

},

  selinux => {

    enabled => false

[root@foo ~]# /root/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/bin/facter --show-legacy operatingsystem

Archlinux

[root@foo ~]# /root/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/bin/facter --show-legacy operatingsystemrelease

[root@foo ~]# /root/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/bin/facter --show-legacy operatingsystemmajrelease

[root@foo ~]# /root/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/bin/facter --version

4.2.9

[root@foo ~]#

[root@bastelfreak-nb ~]# facter --show-legacy operatingsystem

Archlinux

[root@bastelfreak-nb ~]# facter --show-legacy operatingsystemrelease

5.16.18-hardened1-1-hardened

[root@bastelfreak-nb ~]# facter --show-legacy operatingsystemmajrelease

[root@bastelfreak-nb ~]# facter --version

3.14.22

[root@bastelfreak-nb ~]#

Is that a bug or are those legacy facts not implemented because this is arch linux/this is rolling release? This causes some issues in https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-openvpn/pull/432

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Josh Cooper (Jira)

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Apr 21, 2022, 1:53:02 PM4/21/22

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Re: operatingsystemrelease/operatingsystemmajrelease missing on Arch Linux

facter 4 doesn't have any arch specific resolvers. It just knows that there's an osfamily called Archlinux and uses "generic" resolvers to find the distro information. We'd welcome PRs for Archlinux specific resolvers though.

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FACT-3114

operatingsystemrelease/operatingsystemmajrelease missing on Arch Linux

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Tim Meusel (Jira)

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Re: operatingsystemrelease/operatingsystemmajrelease missing on Arch Linux

josh I'm not sure if I can bring up a PR, but I can give it a try. The question is, which value do we want? In facter 3, the major kernel version was used as OS version:

$ facter facterversion os

facterversion => 3.14.22

os => {

  architecture => "x86_64",

  distro => {

    codename => "n/a",

    description => "Arch Linux",

    id => "Arch",

    release => {

      full => "rolling",

      major => "rolling"

},

    specification => "n/a"

},

  family => "Archlinux",

  hardware => "x86_64",

  name => "Archlinux",

  release => {

    full => "5.16.18-hardened1-1-hardened",

    major => "5",

    minor => "16"

},

  selinux => {

    enabled => false

Is that desired for facter 4 as well, or should it be `rolling`, like the LSB facts report it? I vote for the first option, otherwise a lot of puppet code would break I guess.