FreeBSD Support

[b4ldr]

Hello,

Do you still support FreeBSD. I am getting the following error

No facts were found in the FacterDB for: [{:facterversion=>"/\\A2\\.5\\./", :operatingsystem=>"FreeBSD", :operatingsystemrelease=>"/^10/", :hardwaremodel=>"amd64"}]
No facts were found in the FacterDB for: [{:facterversion=>"/\\A2\\.5\\./", :operatingsystem=>"FreeBSD", :operatingsystemrelease=>"/^10/", :hardwaremodel=>"amd64"}]
No examples found.

I am running the following versions

• facter (2.5.1)
• facterdb (0.3.12)

Im not too familure with the code of this project however a naive search shows that freebsd facts only exist upto version 2.4. so for now i have added facter < 2.5 to my gemspec as per this comment #44 (comment)

Thanks

[DavidS]

You analysis is correct. If you have access to FreeBSD systems, you can use the scripts in https://github.com/camptocamp/facterdb/tree/master/facts to gather facts and submit them here for publication.

[b4ldr]

I have updated the scripts and created a pull (#53)

which would update the freebsd facts

Thanks

[zachfi]

Thanks for the FreeBSD update @b4ldr. Looking forward to it.

[zachfi]

@b4ldr Did you get a FreeBSD box working in #59 ? I'm trying to repllicate part of what you did there, but I can't get an image that works.

[zachfi]

  config.vm.define "freebsd-11-x86_64" do |host|
    host.vm.box = "bento/freebsd-11.0"
    host.ssh.shell = '/bin/sh'
    host.vm.network :private_network, ip: '10.0.0.2'
    host.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", :nfs => true
    host.vm.provision "shell", inline: "pkg install -y devel/ruby-gems"
    host.vm.provision "file", source: "Gemfile", destination: "Gemfile"
    host.vm.provision "shell", path: "get_facts.sh"
    host.vm.provision "shell", inline: "/sbin/shutdown -h now"
  end

[b4ldr]

@xaque208 the only difference between yours and mine is that i used bento/freebsd-11.1[1]
and a slightly modified get_facts.sh[2]

[1]https://github.com/b4ldr/facterdb/blob/update_vagrant/facts/Vagrantfile#L132
[2]https://github.com/b4ldr/facterdb/blob/update_vagrant/facts/get_facts.sh

[zachfi]

Oh I kept thinking that the shell provider was failing due to the pkg install, but I didn't think to check get_facts.sh. I'll look again in the evening.

[zachfi]

@b4ldr See #60. I'm unable to get NFS to mount. It just hangs.

[b4ldr]

@xaque208 yes you need root to mount the freebsd shared folder, i have added a comment to your PR with the relevant info. thanks

[zachfi]

Thanks @b4ldr. I was able to get NFS mount and facter to run. I'll need to look at this again to write the output, which looked like there might be errors on at least some of the versions, but I'll check again.

[zachfi]

I keep meaning to come back to this. Getting FreeBSD facts updated in this repo is blocking several other PRs that I'm trying to make progress on, I've just not been working on Puppet lately.

[b4ldr]

@xaque208 i thought you refactored my pull and had it merged? Let me know if there is something i can help with

[zachfi]

The code got merged, but I had some vagrant issues I never came back to so the facts themselves never got submitted @b4ldr. Perhaps this week I can take another look at it.

[b4ldr]

i have created #68 im getting an error from facter on freebsd 11 (see below) which is prvcenting the script running

root@:~ # facter
Bus error (core dumped)

[zachfi]

@b4ldr Make sure you set a UTF-8 LANG for the environment, and it should work.

[b4ldr]

yes thats seems to have got it

[rodjek]

As of #104, we should have up to date factsets for FreeBSD 11 & 12.