[Bug 1076286] [NEW] Puppet agent not correcly configuring facts synch'd from master

[Andrea Biancini]

Public bug reported:

Hi all,
I'm writing to signal a very easy to fix potential problem to your puppet package.
The package for the agent, as provided, does not permit to facts defined on the master to be correctly deployed and used on the agent side.

To reproduce the error, for example, I could define in the master a site.pp as follow:
node puppetclient {
  include modulewithfact

  file { '/tmp/puppettest':
    ensure => present,
    content => $test_fact,
  }
}
And a module, under modules/modulewithfact, that has under the lib/facter a file test_fact.rb as follows:
Facter.add(:test_fact) do
  confine :kernel => "Linux"
  setcode do
        "Content from the fact"
  end
end
Given this configuration the expected behavior should be that the fact is deployed on every agent (of course if they enable pluginsync=true in the puppet.conf) and then properly executed.
So the file /tmp/puppettest should contain the string  "Content from the fact".

This is not happening, with the default configuration, because the agent is not instructed to include in the facterlib path all the facts synchronized from the server.
To avoid this situation I simply added to the /etc/default/puppet file the following line:
FACTERLIB=/var/lib/puppet/lib/facter
which permits to include in the facterlib the folder where facts from the server are synchronized by the agent.

I am writing to propose you to add this line in the standard /etc/defatult/puppet file in the puppet package from further versions.
I hope my example and explaination is clear enough.

Thanks and regards,
Andrea

** Affects: puppet (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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