Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: About "new" templates correct usage or limitations Author: th Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,26723,26946#msg-26946
zzamboni Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 1. Copy "master file" from its master location to > /local/template/file. CFEngine will only re-copy > the file if the master file has changed. > 2. Apply transforms on /local/template/file, using > edit_line or whatever you want, to produce > /local/staging/file. CFEngine will only re-write > /local/staging/file if, after the edits, it's > different from what it was before. > 3. Copy /local/staging/file to /final/file. > CFEngine will only re-copy the file if it has > changed. Hello Diego, I just went back evaluating this option since it seems to me, for the reasons mentionned earlier, the only no-limitation way to both create (if not present) and edit (if present) a file (i.e. the best way to promise the whole file) : Just to be sure : with promises such as edit_line => set_variable_values (just as your book's sshd_config example), the only way I can imagine to, as you say, "produce" a local staging file would be to copy the "master" file to "staging" file. Am I right ? Thanks -- TH _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
