Re: Thoughts about copy_from

2010-03-05 Thread NWatson
Jesse, Perhaps you should take a fresh approach. Restate your original goal that started all your template efforts. Perhaps someone else has another way to do it. Sincerely, -- Neil Watson 416-673-3465 CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING This communication, including any attachments, is for the exclus

Re: Thoughts about copy_from

2010-03-05 Thread Jesse Becker
Message- >From: Jesse Becker [mailto:becker...@mail.nih.gov] >Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:57 PM >To: nwat...@symcor.com >Cc: Becker, Jesse (NIH/NHGRI) [C]; help-cfengine@cfengine.org; >help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org; Justin Lloyd >Subject: Re: Thoughts about copy_fro

RE: Thoughts about copy_from

2010-03-05 Thread Justin Lloyd
Message- From: Jesse Becker [mailto:becker...@mail.nih.gov] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:57 PM To: nwat...@symcor.com Cc: Becker, Jesse (NIH/NHGRI) [C]; help-cfengine@cfengine.org; help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org; Justin Lloyd Subject: Re: Thoughts about copy_from On Fri, Mar 05, 2010

Re: Thoughts about copy_from

2010-03-05 Thread Jesse Becker
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 02:45:19PM -0500, nwat...@symcor.com wrote: >help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org wrote on 2010-03-05 14:37:57: >> I'd like to add one more suggestion as well: >> >> * Include the ability to call expand_scalars in the same promise as >> copying a file from a remote host.

Re: Thoughts about copy_from

2010-03-05 Thread NWatson
help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org wrote on 2010-03-05 14:37:57: > I'd like to add one more suggestion as well: > > * Include the ability to call expand_scalars in the same promise as > copying a file from a remote host. Currently, this has to be done via > two separate promises: one to

Re: Thoughts about copy_from

2010-03-05 Thread Jesse Becker
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 02:11:42PM -0500, Justin Lloyd wrote: >I just wanted to throw out a couple of thoughts about copy_from that >have come up in my mind during my policy development: Agreed on all three points. I'd like to add one more suggestion as well: * Include the abil

Thoughts about copy_from

2010-03-05 Thread Justin Lloyd
I just wanted to throw out a couple of thoughts about copy_from that have come up in my mind during my policy development: * The reference manual doesn't specify the default value for copy_from's copy_backup attribute. (That goes for a number of things in the documentation