Jira (FACT-2918) FACTER_ environmental facts overrides don't work with external facts

[Henry Wang (Jira)]

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Henry Wang updated an issue   Facter / FACT-2918 FACTER_ environmental facts overrides don't work with external facts Change By: Henry Wang Overriding Using cli, overriding external facts from the cli works with facter but not in puppet. Reproducing steps: when the external fact things don't exist: {code:java} [root@goat01 facts.d]# pwd /etc/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d [root@goat01 facts.d]# ll things.txt ls: cannot access things.txt: No such file or directory [root@goat01 facts.d]# facter -p things [root@goat01 facts.d]# FACTER_things=stuff facter -p things stuff [root@goat01 facts.d]# FACTER_things=stuff puppet facts|grep things "things": "stuff", [root@goat01 facts.d]# FACTER_things=stuff puppet apply -e 'notify{"things=>${facts.get(things)}<":}' Notice: Compiled catalog for goat01.unix.gsm1900.org in environment production in 0.02 seconds Notice: things=>stuff< Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Notify[things=>stuff<]/message: defined 'message' as 'things=>stuff<' Notice: Applied catalog in 0.06 seconds{code} however, when external facts exist. create external fact things with value 'NOT_STUFF': {code:java} [root@goat01 facts.d]# echo things=NOT_STUFF > things.txt[root@goat01 facts.d]# facter -p things NOT_STUFF[root@goat01 facts.d]# FACTER_things=stuff facter -p things #<-- works stuff[root@goat01 facts.d]# FACTER_things=stuff puppet facts|grep things #<-- doesnt "things": "NOT_STUFF",[root@goat01 facts.d]# FACTER_things=stuff puppet apply -e 'notify{"things=>${facts.get(things)}<":}' Notice: Compiled catalog for goat01.unix.gsm1900.org in environment production in 0.02 seconds Notice: things=>NOT_STUFF< Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Notify[things=>NOT_STUFF<]/message: defined 'message' as 'things=>NOT_STUFF<' Notice: Applied catalog in 0.06 seconds {code} Conclusion: using cli, when external facts exist, environment facts FACTER_<fact> will not overwrite the external facts in Puppet run. facter -p can display the overwritten value but puppet facts and puppet run can't. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.5.2#805002-sha1:a66f935) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.383195.1610609261000.115030.1610609400030%40Atlassian.JIRA.