Will-
There is another way to do this (although Mark is certainly correct in what he
says), and that is to do the management of the differences outside of Cfengine:
1) Create two subdirectories: $(masterfiles)/everyone and
$(masterfiles)/special_everyone
2) Populate both those directories with
Will, what you are trying to do is not a convergent operation and I strongly
advise
against it. (Merging 2 sets cannot be convergent because if the sets overlap,
the outcome
is unclear). Purging only adds to the confusion. It's like getting two teams
to paint
your house and telling one "paint
i All,
I've been toying around with CFengine a bit, and have run into a bit
of a wall. I've got a bunch of machines that all need a certain set of
files copied to /usr/local/everyone. On some of the machines, there
are other special files that go in /usr/local/everyone that lay on top
of the gener
