What is the preferred method for getting back a single custom fact now that facter -p is deprecated?

[Trevor Vaughan]

While I'm a master of parsing clumped JSON by eye, not everyone might be...

Thanks,

Trevor

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Trevor Vaughan
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[Peter Huene]

Hi Trevor,

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Trevor Vaughan <tvau...@onyxpoint.com> wrote:

While I'm a master of parsing clumped JSON by eye, not everyone might be...

TL;DR: you may continue to use the `--puppet` option in Facter 3.0.2+.

We reversed course on removing the `--puppet` option from Facter in 3.0.2 as there was no suitable replacement in place ("puppet facts" just doesn't cut it).  While it's still considered to be "deprecated" in the sense that we don't like having a "reverse" dependency on Puppet from Facter, I don't think we have plans to implement a replacement any time soon.

If you have a single location where your custom facts are stored, you may also pass the "--custom-dir" option to Facter to let it search the given directory for custom facts; it's an easy alternative if you're just hacking a custom fact together without a Puppet module in place.

 

Thanks,

Trevor

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Trevor Vaughan
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[Trevor Vaughan]

Got it, thanks for the update!

Trevor

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