Re: Defining a class based on file contents

[mark]

You can define classes in a conditinal block as of 2.0.6.
2.0.7 is just around the corner, in spite of my saying the
2.1.0 would be thenext version...

M

On 12 May, Chip Seraphine wrote:
> 
> 
> I have a situation where I would like to define a class based on the 
> contents of the file, but do not wish to actually modify the file 
> itself.   Does anybody know a good way to do this (other than using a 
> module or shellcommand)?
> 
> I have tried "|BeginGroupIfNoLineContaining" and such, but this doesn't 
> do the trick because I can't define classes inside the conditional 
> block.  There is no "touch" type command either, so I am not sure of a 
> safe way to fool cfengine into thinking the file has been edited without 
> doing something dangerous (changing the file) or silly (editing the file 
> and then removing the edit).  I was trying to do something clever with 
> "abort" and "catchabort", but that doesn't seem well suited to this either.
> 
> Has anybody else solved a problem like this?
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