[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#492718: $operatingsystem suddenly linux instead of debian

[martin f krafft]

Package: puppet
Version: 0.24.5-2
Severity: important

Today's upgrade pulled in puppet 0.24.5-2 and a new facter version,
1.5-0.1. Since that upgrade, the two unstable hosts I manage with
puppet started to cause:

  puppetmasterd[11947]: No matching value for selector param 'linux'
  at /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:8 on node ...

That line is a the selection line in

  Package {
    provider => $operatingsystem ? {
      debian => aptitude,
    },
  }

Unfortunately, facter, when invoked on these hosts from the command
line, properly reports 'Debian', so this looks like a puppetd bug.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.108      add and remove users and groups
ii  facter                        1.5-0.1    a library for retrieving facts fro
ii  libopenssl-ruby               4.2        OpenSSL interface for Ruby
ii  libruby [libxmlrpc-ruby]      4.2        Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  libshadow-ruby1.8             1.4.1-8    Interface of shadow password for R
ii  libxmlrpc-ruby                4.2        transitional dummy package
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-15     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  ruby                          4.2        An interpreter of object-oriented 

Versions of packages puppet recommends:
ii  rdoc                          4.2        Generate documentation from ruby s

puppet suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


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