Re: [help-cfengine] [CFE-2162] testing needed

2016-05-23 Thread Nick Anderson
On 05/23/2016 08:31 AM, Alexis Mousset wrote: > Hello, > > I have run the ncf tests against this build, and found no regression > related to iterations. However, some tests are broken because strings > containing unexpandable variables are skipped. Is it a intended change > of behavior in 3.10?

Re: getclassmetatags("myclass", "foo") and getvariablemetatags("myvar", "foo")

2016-07-13 Thread Nick Anderson
What would you expect to get when you have a tag without = in it? "myvar" string => "value", meta => { "inventory", "attribute_name=my special inventory thing" }; "inventory_tags" slist => getvariablemetatags("myvar", "inventory"); An empty list? A list with a single element of empty string? {

Fwd: testall "can't find cf-agent or other binary"

2017-01-31 Thread Nick Anderson
Forwarded from help list. On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 4:34:41 AM UTC-6, Igor Goncharenko wrote: > > Hi! > > I already have installed cfengine 3.10 (and fakeroot) rpms and I try to > run acceptance tests from tarball and see an error: > > $ tar xvf cfengine-3.10.0.tar.gz > $ cd

Re: [help-cfengine] Executing CFEngine src blocks from org-mode in Emacs/Spacemacs

2016-09-12 Thread Nick Anderson
On 09/12/2016 09:10 AM, Neil Watson wrote: > See Sithmaster Ted has completed your seduction to the dark side. HA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "dev-cfengine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email

Seeking input on extending the apt_get package module to support additional options

2016-09-16 Thread Nick Anderson
There is a pull request opened by Joe Moore to add option handling support to the apt_get package module. It would be great to have some additional input in the ticket or in the existing open pull request. https://tracker.mender.io/browse/CFE-2468 https://github.com/cfengine/masterfiles/pull/802

In search of feedback for the use of functions as promisers

2016-08-25 Thread Nick Anderson
ken place in [https://tracker.mender.io/browse/CFE-1092] regarding the use of functions for any string in the CFEngine policy but no decision or concensus has been reached. There are some objections to readability as well as the specific implementation details. The community advisory board discussed

Re: Cfengine Community Wiki

2017-01-04 Thread Nick Anderson
I just added on to it. On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 8:28:45 AM UTC-6, Steven Kreuzer wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Neil Watson > wrote: > > Github wikis are wikis and repos. You can edit them both ways. > > Works for me. I just added a page to

Fwd: [help-cfengine] checking contents in files

2018-08-27 Thread Nick Anderson
A more developer related question from the help list. -- Forwarded message - From: Stefan Skoglund Date: Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [help-cfengine] checking contents in files To: sön 2018-08-26 klockan 23:05 +0100 skrev Tina Friedrich: > It depends a little bit

Fwd: apt-get and its package_module

2018-08-27 Thread Nick Anderson
-- Forwarded message - From: Stefan Skoglund Date: Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 10:29 AM Subject: apt-get and its package_module To: debian-team NT I have a problem there utf-8 characters inside of listbugs/ignore_bugs breaks apt-listbugs (it is ruby which doesn't like utf-8

Re: apt-get and its package_module

2018-08-29 Thread Nick Anderson
Have you tried making that change in your environment? On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 7:24 PM wrote: > It is I who sent that question to debian-team. > > I have an habit of inserting utf-8 characters inside ignore_bugs (fel är > rapport...) > Which makes ruby in the LANG=C locale 'misbehave' . It

Re: 'groups' promise type?

2019-05-11 Thread Nick Anderson
It is absent, unfortunately. There is a ticket here https://tracker.mender.io/browse/CFE-2215 I don't know of any surprises. And while it's quite annoying to be missing, it just hasn't risen to a high enough priority for us to implement it (though we would love to have it). On Sat, May 11,