smartos standard image 15.11 has broken puppet install

[nathans]

With apologies if this is not the correct venue for bug reports for smartos images...

We are using Triton private cloud and discovered recently that the standard smartos image v. 15.1.1 (d778a286-0de7-11e5-b792-d341e8fe14e6) has a broken puppet install out of the box:

$ sudo puppet agent -t
/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.9.3/rubygems/dependency.rb:247:in `to_specs': Could not find facter (~> 1.6) amongst [activemodel-3.2.21, activerecord-3.2.21, activesupport-3.2.21, arel-3.0.3, bigdecimal-1.1.0, builder-3.0.4, capistrano-3.4.0, capistrano-stats-1.1.1, colorize-0.7.5, daemon_controller-1.2.0, daemons-1.2.1, eventmachine-1.0.7, facter-2.4.1, gem_plugin-0.2.3, hiera-1.3.4, hoe-3.13.1, i18n-0.7.0, io-console-0.4.2, io-console-0.3, json-1.5.5, json_pure-1.8.2, memcache-client-1.7.4, minitest-5.5.1, minitest-2.5.1, mongrel-1.1.5, mongrel_cluster-1.0.5, multi_json-1.11.0, needle-1.3.0, net-scp-1.2.1, net-ssh-2.9.2, puppet-3.1.1, rack-1.6.0, rack-1.5.2, rake-0.9.2.2, rdoc-4.2.0, rdoc-3.9.5, rmagick-2.13.4, ruby-shadow-2.4.1, sqlite3-1.3.10, sshkit-1.7.1, thin-1.6.3, tzinfo-0.3.43] (Gem::LoadError)
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.9.3/rubygems/specification.rb:783:in `block in activate_dependencies'
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.9.3/rubygems/specification.rb:772:in `each'
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.9.3/rubygems/specification.rb:772:in `activate_dependencies'
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.9.3/rubygems/specification.rb:756:in `activate'
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.9.3/rubygems.rb:1236:in `gem'
        from /opt/local/bin/puppet:22:in `<main>'

This is after running pkgin upgrade.

It appears that the installed puppet-3.1.1 has a dependency on the 1.x branch of facter, but only 2.4.1 is available in the repos:

$ sudo pkgin search facter
ruby21-facter-2.4.1nb1  Cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from OS
ruby200-facter-2.4.1nb1  Cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from OS
ruby193-facter-2.4.1nb1 = Cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from OS

I also tried with the ruby21 version of the packages and had the same issue.