PE 3.x emits a puppetversion fact in the format "3.x.x (Puppet Enterprise 3.x.x)". This fact causes an error when invoked on PE 3.x: Could not retrieve fact='package_provider', resolution='<anonymous>': Malformed version number string 3.8.1 (Puppet Enterprise 3.8.1
This fix has been tested on PE 3.8.2 and should work for PE 3.3, 3.7, and 3.8.
Original-fix-by: Alex Harden <aharden@gmail.com>
This adds a package_provider fact for situations where we need to be
able to know the client's package provider in a simple way. Situations
such as: package { 'name': install_options => [] } As those tend to be
package provider specific options.