Announce: Native Facter (cfacter) 0.3.0 is available!

[Peter Huene]

Native Facter (cfacter) 0.3.0 is a features-and-fixes release in the Native Facter pre-1.0 series.

Included in this release is support for building Native Facter on Windows and Solaris.  The EC2 and GCE facts were also implemented in this release.

Notable updates:

• Windows is now a supported platform:
  
• Please see https://github.com/puppetlabs/cfacter/blob/master/WINDOWS.md
   for build instructions.             
  
• Solaris is now a supported platform:
  
• Please see https://github.com/puppetlabs/cfacter-build
   for build instructions. 
• Added a Fedora 20 package.
• Implemented overriding facts from FACTER_* environment variables.
• Added a new "networking" structured fact to organize networking data.
• Implemented the EC2 and GCE facts.
• Various bug fixes including a fix for a hang when exec'ing a shell script missing a hashbang and supporting custom facts on platforms with libraries in a lib64 directory. 

Packages for the following platforms have been distributed on the Puppet Labs Package Repositories:

• Debian/Ubuntu: Lucid, Precise, Squeeze, Trusty, and Wheezy.
  
• RHEL 5, 6, and 7.
• Fedora 20

Please see https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html

 for information about installing from the package repositories.

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[Paul Seymour]

 

Thanks for this. Just put the RHEL7 x86_64 on a puppet client and it complains:-

 

"Error: Could not initialize global default settings: cfacter version 0.2.0 or later is not installed."

Tracing it through it is looking for the libraries in /usr/lib64 and they are installed via the RPM in /usr/lib this doesn't happen when running via the command line so maybe something with my environment.

Linking/Copying the libs to /usr/lib64 and all is well with Puppet agent

Thanks

Paul

[Melissa Stone]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:37 AM, Paul Seymour <paul.s...@ig.com> wrote:

 

Thanks for this. Just put the RHEL7 x86_64 on a puppet client and it complains:-

 

"Error: Could not initialize global default settings: cfacter version 0.2.0 or later is not installed."

Tracing it through it is looking for the libraries in /usr/lib64 and they are installed via the RPM in /usr/lib this doesn't happen when running via the command line so maybe something with my environment.

Could you give us a little more information about how you're running cfacter? It sounds like puppet isn't playing with cfacter as well as it should, but I'd like to confirm that. Can you also let us know what version of the puppet you're running?

 

Linking/Copying the libs to /usr/lib64 and all is well with Puppet agent

Thanks

Paul

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[Paul Seymour]

On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:07:46 UTC, Melissa Stone wrote:

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:37 AM, Paul Seymour <paul.s...@ig.com> wrote:

 

Thanks for this. Just put the RHEL7 x86_64 on a puppet client and it complains:-

 

"Error: Could not initialize global default settings: cfacter version 0.2.0 or later is not installed."

Tracing it through it is looking for the libraries in /usr/lib64 and they are installed via the RPM in /usr/lib this doesn't happen when running via the command line so maybe something with my environment.

Could you give us a little more information about how you're running cfacter? It sounds like puppet isn't playing with cfacter as well as it should, but I'd like to confirm that. Can you also let us know what version of the puppet you're running?

Sure the version is 3.7.1, being meaning to bump up to 3.7.4 to play with Puppet Server but not there just yet.

Thanks

 

 

[Kylo Ginsberg]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Melissa Stone <mel...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:37 AM, Paul Seymour <paul.s...@ig.com> wrote:

 

Thanks for this. Just put the RHEL7 x86_64 on a puppet client and it complains:-

 

"Error: Could not initialize global default settings: cfacter version 0.2.0 or later is not installed."

Tracing it through it is looking for the libraries in /usr/lib64 and they are installed via the RPM in /usr/lib this doesn't happen when running via the command line so maybe something with my environment.

Could you give us a little more information about how you're running cfacter? It sounds like puppet isn't playing with cfacter as well as it should, but I'd like to confirm that. Can you also let us know what version of the puppet you're running?

I repro'd this with puppet 3.7.4: standalone cfacter itself works fine, but "puppet --cfacter" doesn't.

Two things to workaround this:

1) gem install ffi

2) libfacter.so* should be in /usr/lib64 rather than /usr/lib

Kylo

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