facter 1.6.3 ebuilds not visible in tree and no visible bugs for bump. Facter 1.6.3 was released roughly 12 days ago. Changes may not impact gentoo much as they seem to be targeting other platforms -- however, people running multiple platforms will want to run the same release on each to make tracking down bugs easier. Announcement below: Matthaus Litteken matthaus@puppetlabs.com to puppet-users, puppet-dev, puppet-announce show details Nov 11 (12 days ago) Facter 1.6.3 is a maintenance release containing fixes, updates and refactoring. It resolves issues #7038, #10228, and #10233. Full release notes below. This release is available for download at: http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/facter/facter-1.6.3.tar.gz See the Verifying Puppet Download section at: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Downloading_Puppet#Verifying+Puppet+Downloads Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs Redmine site, using an affected version of 1.6.3: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/ Full Release Notes at: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/wiki/Wiki RPMs available on yum.puppetlabs.com DEBs available on apt.puppetlabs.com # Facter 1.6.3 Release Notes ## (7038) Validate prtdiag output in manufacturer prtdiag cannot be run inside zones, and calling Facter::Util::Resolution.exec on it will return nil. The manufacturer utility was calling split() on nil, which was raising an exception. Added validation of prtdiag output, and simplified the regex to extract values for facts. Added more coverage for the related facts as well. ## (10228) Ascendos OS support for various facts. This patch will make various facts return the correct value on Ascendos (a new RHEL rebuild - http://www.ascendos.org/): * hardwareisa * lsbmajdistrelease * macaddress * operatingsystem * operatingsystemrelease * osfamily * uniqueid ## (10233) Adds support for Parallels Server Bare Metal to Facter
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