RE: Platform string

[Ferguson, Steve]

That's exactly the trick I needed!  Thanks!

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wheeler, John [mailto:jwheeler@eb.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 3:33 PM
> To: Ferguson, Steve; Cfengine List (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Platform string
> 
> 
> > I can define a variable in the control section based on a 
> > shell escape?
> 
> I do this to get "yesterday"
> 
> Control:
> 
>    _day    = ( ExecResult(/bin/sh -c "TZ=${TZ}+24;export TZ;/bin/date
> +%d") )
> 
> 
> 
> you should be able to do something like:
> 
> platform = ( ExecResult(/bin/sh -c " uname -sr | tr ' ' '_'") )
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferguson, Steve [mailto:Steve.Ferguson@gedas.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:54 PM
> To: Wheeler, John; Ferguson, Steve; Cfengine List (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Platform string
> 
> I can't use these without having to explicitly test for each 
> case, which
> kinda defeats the point, in that I don't want to have to manually
> maintain
> the list of operating system versions inside the 
> configuration files.  I
> envision something more like this (to use a shell metaphor):
> 
>   platform = ( `uname -sr | tr ' ' '_'`)
> 
> which is much more elegant than:
> 
>   sunos_5_6::  platform = ( sunos_5_6 )
>   sunos_5_7::  platform = ( sunos_5_7 )
>   sunos_5_8::  platform = ( sunos_5_8 )
>   hpux...::  platform = ( hpux... )
>   hpux...::  platform = ( hpux... )
>   hpux...::  platform = ( hpux... )
>   linux...::  platform = ( linux... )
>   linux...::  platform = ( linux... )
>   linux...::  platform = ( linux... )
> 
> etc.
> 
> I'm not looking for a defined class, but a defined variable that I can
> insert into an expression.
> 
> Steve
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wheeler, John [mailto:jwheeler@eb.com]
> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 2:47 PM
> > To: Ferguson, Steve; Cfengine List (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: Platform string
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > # on a 2.8 host
> > cfagent --verbose --no-splay -p 
> > 
> > ...
> > Additional hard class defined as: 32_bit
> > Additional hard class defined as: sunos_5_8
> > Additional hard class defined as: sunos_sun4u
> > Additional hard class defined as: sunos_sun4u_5_8
> > Additional hard class defined as: sparc
> > ...
> > 
> > # on a 2.6 host
> > cfagent --verbose --no-splay -p
> > 
> > ...
> > Additional hard class defined as: 32_bit
> > Additional hard class defined as: sunos_5_6
> > Additional hard class defined as: sunos_sun4u
> > Additional hard class defined as: sunos_sun4u_5_6
> > Additional hard class defined as: sparc
> > ...
> > 
> > I'm missing something. You can't use these, or you don't like the
> > format?
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ferguson, Steve [mailto:Steve.Ferguson@gedas.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:28 PM
> > To: Cfengine List (E-mail)
> > Subject: Platform string
> > 
> > I'm looking to create a variable that can give me essentially this:
> > 
> > uname -sr | tr ' ' '_'
> > 
> > E.g.
> > 
> > SunOS_5.8
> > HP-UX_B.11.00
> > Linux_2.4.20-20.9
> > 
> > Cfengine has arch, class, and ostype.  Of these, class and 
> > ostype can't
> > differentiate Solaris 7 from Solaris 8 (class is sun4, ostype 
> > is sun4u).
> > arch can differentiate, but it further differentiates kernel patch
> > levels.
> > I want all Solaris 7 boxes grouped in one definition.
> > 
> > My end result is for binary updates.  For various reasons, I have to
> > maintain separate binaries for Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8.  Right 
> > now I have
> > a
> > mass of symlinks in my repository that I'd like to clean up.  
> > Is there a
> > way
> > I can define a variable in the control section based on a 
> > shell escape?
> > 
> > What's "The Cfengine Way" for accomplishing this?  I'm open to other
> > approaches, so long as they meet the basic functionality of
> > differentiating
> > major releases (and no more granular than that) of a single OS.
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > --
> > Steve Ferguson <steve.ferguson@gedas.com>
> > gedas USA, Inc.
> > Phone: 248-754-3844
> > URL: http://www.gedasusa.com
> > 
> > 
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