From owner-freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org Sat Jun 4 19:36:05 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ruby@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FAFB68733 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 19:36:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@opsec.eu) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF1681FEF for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 19:36:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@opsec.eu) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id EA477B68730; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 19:36:04 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ruby@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9ABAB6872E; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 19:36:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@opsec.eu) Received: from home.opsec.eu (home.opsec.eu [IPv6:2001:14f8:200::1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB6871FED; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 19:36:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@opsec.eu) Received: from pi by home.opsec.eu with local (Exim 4.87 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1b9HMd-000Kl1-95; Sat, 04 Jun 2016 21:36:07 +0200 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 21:36:07 +0200 From: Kurt Jaeger To: Peter M Souter Cc: ruby@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Facter 3.X questions Message-ID: <20160604193607.GK41922@home.opsec.eu> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD-specific Ruby discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2016 19:36:05 -0000 Hi! > Since Facter's move to a C/C++ codebase, a lot of facts have gone missing > on FreeBSD machines. As a dabbler in FreeBSD I want to help fix this! :) Very nice! I'm no puppet or facter user, but I can probably help with the ports part. Can you explain the state of factor for us ? We have 3.1.3 in the ports, and upstream is @3.1.8. Have you tried to provide a patch to the ports to get the port up2date ? Then: What are those 'facts' ? Are they modules for facter to collect specific info on a system etc ? Are they part of facter itself or do you want to provide seperate ports for this ? What kind of facts are generally available ? The WWW in pkg-descr is https://puppetlabs.com/facter, which no longer works -- what would be the correct link ? How/when should facter replace rubygem-facter in the ports tree ? Right now puppet depends on rubygem-facter, which is only at 2.4.4 ? Upstream is at 2.4.6. > more difficult missing areas such as determining swap space, networks and > such, that would be greatly appreciated. Getting kenv and sysctl settings > has been fairly simple, these ones have been a little bit more complex... For this, we probably need more understanding of facter 8-} Any links that you can share that bring us up to speed ? > 3) How difficult is it to become a maintainer? Submit PRs for sysutils/facter and sysutils/rubygem-facter. robak@ is the maintainer for rubygem-facter, so maybe he's willing to step down ? > I notice that facter is > currently under the ruby maintainer email namespace, but right now it's not > released to Rubygems since 2.4 and the code is 85% C++ now. I wouldn't mind > throwing my hat in and becoming a maintainer if that would help? :) Submit PRs requesting maintainer, and if they come with patches that bring the ports up2date, you're maintainer if the previous maintainer agrees. > PS. Sorry if this is the wrong way to do this, first time emailing to a > port maintainer list. I asked in the FreeBSD freenode room and people said > this was the way to do it and to CC the Ports mailing list also :) Both lists are fine. As this is more a general ports question, -ports is probably fine for further discussion. There's not much discussion on -ruby. -- pi@opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 4 years to go !