Confusion with Variables and Groups

[Erik Williamson]

Hi All,

I've got two classes defined: Com1ConsoleServers & Com2ConsoleServers, 
with ConsoleServers being an amalgamation of the two.

In my editfiles section, I currently have a section for each, even 
though there's very few differences between the two.  I'd like to tidy 
this up;  Is there a way to define variables based on which of the above 
classes a machine is in?  This way, instead of this:

editfiles:
  Com1ConsoleServers::
    <do stuff>

  Com2ConsoleServers::
    <do remarkably similar stuff>

I could do this:

editfiles:
  Com1ConsoleServers::
    <do stuff with $(ComPort) >
    <do more stuff with $(ComPort) >

So, as a test case, I tried this (only the important stuff shown):
control:
  TestClassTest::
    BigTestVariable = ( "Wooooo" )

groups:
   TestClassTest = ( testhost )

shellcommands:
  TestClassTest::
    "/bin/echo $(BigTestVariable)"

I didn't expect this to work, and it didn't (got a ) - alas, is there a 
way to accomplish this?

Thanks!
Erik.

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