Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: "expand_scalars" in "copy_from"? Author: davidlee Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23643,23671#msg-23671
Neil, your point about locally caching the template file (separating copy and edit stages) is worth consideration. But in the other direction there is an as yet unmentioned point in favour of a single "copy-then-edit". With "copy_from", sites can make extensive use of "preserve" to maintain the permissions of the master file onto the copy on the clients. When there is a set of several files, needing a variety of different permissions, using "preserve" is both very clean and very clear. Sadly, forcing apart the copy and the edit phases of this suggested "copy-and-edit" into two separate stages makes that more awkward. Yes, it can be achieved by specifying the mode as an explicit number in the cfengine promises. But for a set of files, all that has to be spelt out explicitly by a mode clause per file; one is, alas, unable to use that clean, clear "preserve" clause. The existing mechanism denies this possibility. It would be very nice if this were available to use. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
