Mark, I think sauer is referring to this typo in the Solutions Guide, at
http://cfengine.com/manuals/cf3-solutions.html#Set-up-a-PXE-boot-server.
More of a documentation bug than a software bug.
sauer, you can use multi-line strings wherever you use "plain" strings:
just adding a line break in a string causes it to continue, until a
closing " is encountered. For example:
vars:
"my_long_string" string => "This
is
a
multi
line
string";
Beware that if you try to indent the lines to match the rest of the
file, the indents (tabs or spaces) will be included in the string.
Jonathan
On 18/06/11 10:56, Mark Burgess wrote:
>
> This is not a bug, I think. The problem is you wrote
>
> "atftpd_conf" string => { "5.2" };
>
> You need either
>
> "atftpd_conf" string => "5.2" ;
>
> or
>
> "atftpd_conf" slist => { "5.2" };
>
>
> On 18/06/11 07:08, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
>> It's a bug. The policy does not pass cf-promises syntax check:
>>
>> Fatal cfengine error: Validation: rhs is a list, but lhs (string)
>> is not a list type
>>
>> You can file a bug report on bug.cfengine.com.
>>
>> Best,
>> -at
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:13 AM,<no-re...@cfengine.com> wrote:
>>> Forum: Cfengine Help
>>> Subject: long string format
>>> Author: sauer
>>> Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,22500,22500#msg-22500
>>>
>>> Can someone explain the multi-line string format used, for example, in the
>>> solution guide? I'm not following why there's a single-element list, a
>>> semicolon, and then a really long string afterwards. Here's one example:
>>>
>>>
>>> "atftpd_conf" string => { "5.2" };
>>> "
>>> ###########################################
>>>
>>> ### This file is protected by CFEngine. ###
>>>
>>> ### Whatever you do, it will be changed ###
>>>
>>> ### back to a promising state. ###
>>>
>>> ###########################################
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ATFTPD_OPTIONS=\"--daemon \"
>>> ATFTPD_USE_INETD=\"no\"
>>> ATFTPD_DIRECTORY=\"/tftpboot\"
>>> ATFTPD_BIND_ADDRESSES=\"\"
>>> ";
>>>
>>>
>>> I'd be inclned to just do something like this, I'd think:
>>>
>>>
>>> "atftpd_conf" string => "
>>> ###########################################
>>> ...
>>> ";
>>>
>>>
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