Probably just need to upgrade. The computation of when something has already
been done
needed some tuning in the past, but I think it's ok now.
Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is actually one of the first thing I tried to do with cf-engine,
> never managed to do "correctly". Now I have much more cf-engine
> experience, understands better how the software is supposed to work, but
> I am still stuck on this one.
>
> Basically this code explains what I want to do:
>
> bundle agent setupConfiguration
> {
> files:
> ClassA::
> "/var/my-config-file" edit_line => addLine("foo");
> ClassB::
> "/var/lib/my-config-file" edit_line => addLine("bar");
> }
>
> bundle edit_line addLine(line)
> {
> insert_lines: "${line}";
> }
>
> I want to ensure that a file contains the lines foo and bar. The real
> story is that it's of course way more complex, I have lots of classes
> and lines to add, and the content to be added depends on some
> computations etc. But I got everything working except this basic example.
>
> The problem is that the second promise is never executed because
> cf-engine thinks it is already kept by the first one. Eg, the promise is
> made on the file, whereas obviously it also depends on the content of
> the addLine body.
>
> How can I fix this? If it's a matter of rethinking things, as cf-engine
> forces me to do almost everytime, it's OK, I just need a bit of help to
> rethink the logic. But the basic idea is that I have a file that really
> needs to be modified several times in a cf-engine run, with different
> content added each time. I think convergence is not a problem here, as
> order does not matter for me and I can also use the zeroing mode to
> empty the file before editing if that would help.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jean-Noel
>
>
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