Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 19:03:25 -0800 From: Zach Leslie <xaque208@gmail.com> To: "Dan Mahoney (Gushi)" <freebsd@gushi.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rubygem-facter versus sysutils/facter Message-ID: <CACrr7Y5zEFVVRGoQABzgkroc-M4hW0L0DZebwgMMMJW6C7A6KQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1802051738440.96172@prime.gushi.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1802051738440.96172@prime.gushi.org>
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On Feb 5, 2018 5:51 PM, "Dan Mahoney (Gushi)" <freebsd@gushi.org> wrote: All, I've lost the better part of an afternoon to this issue. These questions are not just specific to the above ports, but also as to how ports are best built in general. BACKGROUND: The puppet ports require rubygem-facter. There's a knob in the port that lets you switch to sysutils/facter, which is more modern and written in C. Rubygem-facter is based on facter 2, which is EOL as of 2016. The new-style puppet facts are now including more and more information that's not available in rubygem-facter, and it means that the "Fact" documentation on puppet.org doesn't at all match what you currently get on FreeBSD, even with a modern puppet. The ruby folks have been trying to make a modern rubygem-version for years, but there's no real progress: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT-1523 https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT-1542 Having to build a custom port of Puppet on every machine (which would mean building ruby from scratch) is annoying as heck, and while I have my own poudriere install and build repos, it's *puppet* that places those on my production machines, so I'm looking for a bootstrapping method that "just works" as simply as 'pkg install puppet4' does. Perhaps you have reasons not to, but sysutils/puppet5 should be the promised land you are looking for. By default it uses sysutils/facter, and since that seems to be your underlying goal, maybe start there. I can dig closer at your questions if that ends up being insufficient. There is also a puppet module for poudriere that can help, should you choose to build a repo. Cheers, Zach
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