After puppet 3.8 - 6.17 upgrade, missing lots of pre-defined facters

[Paul Raines]

I upgraded recently from puppet 3.8 to 6.17 on CentOS 7 using the http://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppet6/el/7/ repos.  The puppet-agent package replaced the facter package.

I notice a lot of facters that existed before are missing.  For example zfs_version

Were lots of these removed for specific reasons or am I missing an additional package I should install to get these extra facters that used to be builtin to the main package?

[Marty Ewings]

Hi There

Please find the complete list of core facts, those distributed with the embedded facter here:

https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/6.17/core_facts.html#zfs_version

ZFS_version is present, however this is a solaris only fact.

there are a number of legacy facts hidden by default, they usually have modern equivalents, please see the above link for a description

[Paul Raines]

Okay, so the issue is zfs_version became Solaris only when previously it was not.  Luckily I still had facter 2.4.6 installed on a machine and just copied the zfs_version.rb from the package to a custom fact which works fine on my CentOS boxes

Thanks

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Montag, den 03.08.2020, 06:57 -0700 schrieb Paul Raines:

Okay, so the issue is zfs_version became Solaris only when previously it was not. 

This change is obviously nonsense. There's ZFS on Linux and it's even the default on FreeBSD since a long time. Could you file a bug to have this reverted, please?

Thanks...

Dirk

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