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

[Mark . Burgess]

On 10 Jan, Sheryl Coppenger wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I tried force=true on the copy, and that doesn't seem to make a 
> difference.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be a force=true option on link.  There is
> a nofile=force which doesn't make a difference.  But I think you're
> misunderstanding the situation.  I'm not trying to link to files that
> don't exist.  The problem is that what should be a link already exists 
> as a file and I can't seem to find any way to get cfengine to update
> correctly that case.
> 
> I have binaries abc, abc2
> 
> I want                abc2 to be updated with the new binary
>               abc to be replaced with a soft link to abc2
> 
> Any more ideas, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> 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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Ah gotcha -- try typecheck=false -- this allows cfengine to overwrite
files of different types.

Mark

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