[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#590498: interfaces does not include interfaces that do not end in a number

[Matthew Palmer]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:15:40PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> I rename all my interfaces to give them meaningful names, like "ext"
> or "cable" or "wifi" or "int" or "dmz" etc.
> 
> facter seems to assume that a notable interface always ends in
> a number. Hence, none of my interfaces turn up, nor does lo.
> 
> I don't think this assumption (interfaces end in numbers) is
> reasonable anymore.

"anymore"?  I'd say it was never a reasonable assumption.  I had a patch for
this somewhere (rummages around in pockets), but I appear to have left it in
my other pants.  I do recall it was fairly trivial.

- Matt