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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Andrew Pollock, Nigel Kersten, Andrew Pollock
  • Date: 2009-04-13 15:20:21 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.5 upstream) (3.1.2 squeeze)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20090413152021-t3uagjamr3ee4njl
Tags: 1.5.4-1
[ Nigel Kersten ]
* New upstream release
* Switch maintainer to pkg-puppet-devel list
* Modify uploaders
* Update watch file regexp to exclude release canditate tarballs
* Use upstream install.rb script to build rather than copying manually

[ Andrew Pollock ]
* debian/control: add libopenssl-ruby to build dependencies
* debian/control: bump Standards-Version (no changes)
* debian/compat: increase to 5
* debian/control: add pciutils and ${misc:Depends} to dependencies

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Facter
 
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This package is largely meant to be a library for collecting facts about your
 
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system.  These facts are mostly strings (i.e., not numbers), and are things
 
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like the output of ``uname``, public ssh and cfengine keys, the number of
 
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processors, etc.
 
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See ``bin/facter`` for an example of the interface.
 
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Running Facter
 
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Run the ``facter`` binary on the command for a full list of facts supported on your host.
 
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Adding your own facts
 
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See the `Adding Facts`_ wiki page for details of how to add your own custom facts to Facter.
 
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Further Information
 
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See http://reductivelabs.com/projects/facter/ for more details.
 
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.. _Adding Facts: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/AddingFacts