Browse Source

README: the facts depend on update-notifier

Daniele Sluijters 9 years ago
parent
commit
be3abffb0e
1 changed files with 2 additions and 0 deletions
  1. 2 0
      README.md

+ 2 - 0
README.md

@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ The apt module includes a few facts to describe the state of the Apt system:
 * `apt_package_updates`: The package names that are available for update. In Facter 2.0 and later, this will be a list type; in earlier versions, it is a comma-delimited string.
 * `apt_update_last_success`: The date, in epochtime, of the most recent successful `apt-get update` run. This is determined by reading the mtime of  /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp.
 
+**Note:** The facts depend on 'update-notifier' being installed on your system. Though this is a GNOME daemon only the support files are needed so the package 'update-notifier-common' is enough to enable this functionality.
+
 #### Hiera example
 
 ```