Could someone else please test this? I do not have a spare moment right
now.
M
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:05 -0500, Adam M. Dunn wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> I'm still in a bind on this one. Any light to shed on what I may be
> doing wrong? (if anything) Or is the cfengine documentation wrong or not
> up to date?
>
> This is what it says, "If the purge option is used in copying, then the
> include option has the effect of the excluding files from the purge, i.e.
> include means `keep' the named files."
>
> If is actually wrong, is there a way to ignore certain directories or
> files from the purge using filters? No matter what I do, it just keeps
> deleting everything regardless of my include line, files or directories.
>
>
>
> Thanks
> ~adam
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Adam M. Dunn wrote:
>
> >
> > Yep. I've tried both. I've also tried using just strait files (not
> > directories) with the include, and it still deletes those too.
> >
> > ~a
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Mark Burgess wrote:
> >
> > > Without being in a position to check this right now, have you tried
> > > "ignore" for your directories? Inlcude normally skips directories
> > > while ignore does not.
> > >
> > > M
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 12:14 -0600, Adam M. Dunn wrote:
> > > > Help.
> > > >
> > > > According to the cfengine documentation, if you have purge enabled, then
> > > > any include= will not get purged. I'm trying to use this feature but I
> > > > can't seem to make it work. I want to copy whole directory trees, purge
> > > > the destination, but also leave a /local directory on the destination
> > > > so I
> > > > can have local files in it that won't be purged. Here is what I have in
> > > > my copy.
> > > >
> > > > copy:
> > > >
> > > > GSCBinaries.CVS::
> > > > /var/cfengine/distrib/${binplatform}/gsc
> > > > dest=/usr/gsc
> > > > r=inf
> > > > owner=root
> > > > group=other
> > > > type=binary
> > > > include=local
> > > > exclude=*.cfsaved
> > > > exclude=*~
> > > > exclude=#*
> > > > define=runconfig
> > > > server=$(buildserver)
> > > > trustkey=true
> > > > ifelapsed=0
> > > > purge=true
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas? I've been racking my brain trying to figure this out, and it
> > > > seems so simple it shouldn't be an issue (or am I just that stupid?).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Adam
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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