Can Puppet Windows version support system variables like "%HOMEDRIVE%"?

[Feifei Jia]

I've created a testing manifest like this:

file { '%HOMEDIRVE%\testdir':

    ensure => directory,

    provider => windows,

}

Applied with error:

C:\Users\Administrator>puppet apply c:\init.pp

warning: Could not retrieve fact fqdn

Could not parse for environment production: Could not match %HOMEDRIVE% at c:/in

it.pp:1 on node win-kw0tm8m9vbs

I'd like to know if Puppet Windows support Windows environment variables? Thanks.

Puppet version: 2.7.12

OS version: Windows 2008 R2

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:48:20PM -0700, Feifei Jia wrote:
>
> I'd like to know if Puppet Windows support Windows environment variables?

Operating system environment variables are not directly accessible, no,
although any that beging FACTER_ will be imported as facts (so that
"%FACTER_EXAMPLE%" is available as "$example". You can create your own
custom facts to import any others that you want. See here:

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Environment_Variables_Patterns

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