Re: Copying a directory + purge + links cfengine 2.0.a15

[Mark . Burgess]

On 10 Jan, Sheryl Coppenger wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm an new cfengine user, running 2.0.a15.  So far, most things I've
> tried are running well, but I have a directory struction that I need
> to copy and buried within the structure are a lot of links.  The copy
> is skipping the links, so what I get is
> 
>    Old                    What should happen          Result
> 
>    .../bin/abc      .../bin/abc->./abc2               .../bin/abc  (old 
> binary)
>    .../bin/abc1           (not there)                 (not there)
>    .../bin/abc2           .../bin/abc2                .../bin/abc2 (new 
> binary)
>                   .../bin/xyz->xyz2           .../bin/xyz->xyz2
>                   .../bin/xyz2                .../bin/xyz2
> 
> My configuration file contains
> 
>       from-dir        dest=todir
>                       recurse=inf
>                       purge=true
>                       backup=false
>                       type=checksum
> 
> What am I missing?  I tried adding a links step but since the files
> exist it refuses to remove them and make the links.  And I'd prefer
> to do this all in the copy because I can't guarantee how the structure
> will change over time and I don't want to have to rewrite the config
> every time the software changes.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sheryl
> 

Sheryl, my guess is that you need to force=true the links, since
cfengine doesn't link to files/dirs which do not exist by default.

good luck,
Mark

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