Re: Glob hard class names?

[Tim Nelson]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Atom Powers wrote:

> Is it possible to glob hard class names?
> For instance I currently have:
> --
> Groups:
>         freebsd_4       = ( freebsd_4_11_STABLE freebsd_4_10_STABLE
> freebsd_4_10_RELEASE_p3 )
>         freebsd_5       = ( freebsd_5_3_RELEASE freebsd_5_3_STABLE )
> --
>
> But I'm still missing a lot of systems. "freebsd_5_4_PRERELEASE", for
> example, won't match either group. Can I do something like:
>
> --
> Groups:
>         freebsd_4       = ( freebsd_4_* )
>         freebsd_5       = ( freebsd_5_* )
> --
>
> Or is there another way to easily define a group for these hard classes? (And
> still catch "freebsd_5_4_STABLE" when it is released.)

	In this particular instance, I thought I might mention a project 
I'm working on which tries to use a configuration file to recognise Linux 
distros.  Hopefully with a little extension, and some changes to the 
config file, it could recognise FreeBSD versions too.  As a preliminary, 
the output looks like:

Set ReleaseFile to '/etc/redhat-release'
Set Distribution to 'RedHat'
Set ReleaseFlag to 'release '
Set MajorVersion to '2'
Set CodeVersion to 'Tettnang'
Set Vendor to 'Fedora'

	I'm hoping to transform it into a "Distribution=Redhat" format. 
I'm also hoping to integrate it into the libmetrics project 
(libmetrics.sourceforge.net).  Hopefully such a library could be relied 
upon by cfengine to resolve these kinds of problems.  But I've been 
distracted from working on it for the last week, and may be for the next 
week or two as well.

        :)

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