This problem arises and will continue to arise from the silly way that
cfengine 2 handles lists. There is no satisfactory way to satisfy all
needs here.

You can either change your Split character or escape tjhe quote with
latest patches. New functionality was added for iteration in copy in
2.2.2 so this is not a bug as such. I'm sorry this causes you trouble.

M

Jim Wight wrote:
> I've got this statement in update.conf
> 
> copy:
>      $(svndevel)/cfengine/modules/module:prelude
>                                         dest=$(moduledir)/module:prelude
> 
> It has worked up to 2.2.1, but it would appear from this output under -v
> at 2.2.2
> 
> Checking copy from 
> vs-cfengine.ncl.ac.uk:/addon/subversion/development/cfengine/modules/module 
> to /var/cfengine/modules/module:prelude
> 
> which results in a spurious 'Host authentication failed. Did you forget
> the domain name or IP/DNS address registration (for ipv4 or ipv6)?'
> error, that the colon in 'module:prelude' is being treated as a
> separator.
> 
> I suppose I can always work round it by copying from directory to
> directory with 'include=module:prelude', but should I have to?
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Oslo University College

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