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Collect and display system facts
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provide fact sets for new facter releases #2729

Open bastelfreak opened 5 months ago

bastelfreak commented 5 months ago

Use Case

FacterDB provides factsets for different operating systems. I was told that the facter team does a lot of testing on different platforms. I think it's way easier for the facter team to provide factsets instead of Vox Pupuli. We don't have access to some obscure operating systems.

Describe the Solution You Would Like

FacterDB updates from the facter team when new facter releases happen

Describe Alternatives You've Considered

Vox Pupuli maintains a Vagrantfile but that's hacky and limited to a subset of operating systems: https://github.com/voxpupuli/facterdb/blob/master/facts/Vagrantfile

Additional Context

This was raised multiple times in the past. Also via the old Jira. Since the jira migration and all the back and forth those tickets are basically lost.

joshcooper commented 5 months ago

This was originally filed in https://puppet.atlassian.net/browse/FACT-3065. We currently generate and upload facts to an internal build server. But we don't have automation for publishing those facts to facterdb. This is currently tracked in https://perforce.atlassian.net/browse/FACT-3065 and is currently on hold because some of those facts could contain sensitive data.

bastelfreak commented 1 month ago

Hey, is there any update on this? And which facts could contain sensitive data? I would say that no core facts should do that, otherwise it's a bug and they should be reworked?