PuppetlabsProductsURLProvider.py Factor.download

[BaddMann]

Not really an Issue with your Recipe, more of an Issue with Puppet labs.
The location this python script (PuppetlabsProductsURLProvider.py) is looking at for downloads has not been updated since January 2016.

Current version fails on Sierra Install, though it's probably SIPS related.
Just Thought you would like to know.

I've been unable to discover the new download path as of yet.

[timsutton]

It may simply be time to retire these old PuppetLabs 3.x recipes. Facter is also included as part of the new 4.x agent releases, possibly Hiera as well..

[BaddMann]

The recipe doesn't even give a 3.x install. It's 2.4.6... if I remembered that version correctly....
I was actually hopping on using factor more with some customs scripts. A pity, but oh well.

[timsutton]

I meant 3.x for that generation of the Puppet tools - but the real reason to retire these would be that I wouldn't expect to ever see another macOS pkg built for any of these tools, and that mostly defeats the purpose of automating getting and importing new versions of them..

[dave-negrotto]

New to the whole Munki-AutoPkg/AutoPkgr stack, but just took a look at this while experimenting with Sal's use of Facter, and - as mentioned above - the download is an old version and fails to install. Popping open the download and trying to install on command line results in, what is probably, a failure due to SIP. More research on PuppetLabs site, shows they are not offering a standalone facter dmg anymore (sorry couldn't find documentation on that for proof, but is evident in their downloads site), so you must install the full agent and disable the pieces you don't need. I haven't confirmed yet, but the Sal wiki (at the bottom of linked page) mentions the launchdaemons to disable/remove:

https://github.com/salopensource/sal/wiki/Getting-Started

Given the above, there's probably no reason to keep the issue open.