Re: absolute path errors in 2.1.16

[Chip Seraphine]

Mark Burgess wrote:

> You both need to give decent error reports. I don't have any trouble
> with this. Give me an example. Nothing much has changed in the code, so
> it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
>
> M
Sorry, I was working on getting that together, but I wanted to go ahead 
and get the word out asap.

Basically, in places where I did this:

   control:
      foo= ( /path/to/bin )
      bar= ( /path/to/data )
      result= ( ExecResult(${foo}/command ${bar}/file) )

... resulted in things not expanding to "/path/to/bin/command 
/path/to/file".  I have not actually tried the example above, although I 
will once I get some fires put out. 

Anyway, here's some -I output showing the funky expansions:

monaco: Executing script /var/cfengine/bin/update-smf-manifest clearingd 
cfengine/clearingd.smf.xml              
cfengine/log/smf-update.last...(timeout=0,uid=-1,gid=-1)
monaco:f-manifest clea: /var/cfengine/bin/update-smf-manifest: 
cfengine/log/smf-update.last: cannot create
monaco: Finished script /var/cfengine/bin/update-smf-manifest clearingd 
cfengine/clearingd.smf.xml               cfengine/log/smf-update.last


Reinstalling 2.1.15 with no changes whatsoever to the configs or 
anything else, I got this:

monaco: Executing script /var/cfengine/bin/update-smf-manifest clearingd 
/opt/tradelink/clearingd/etc/clearingd.smf.xml                  
/var/opt/clearingd/log/smf-update.last...(timeout=0,uid=-1,gid=-1)
monaco: Finished script /var/cfengine/bin/update-smf-manifest clearingd 
/opt/tradelink/clearingd/etc/clearingd.smf.xml           
/var/opt/clearingd/log/smf-update.last


As you can see, the "/opt/tradelink/clearingd/etc/clearingd.smf.xml" 
somehow expanded as "cfengine/clearingd.smf.xml", and 
"/var/opt/clearingd/log/smf-update.last" became 
"cfengine/log/smf-update.last".

I have not yet done proper debug runs; I'm tied up on damage control 
right now (this broke a lot of my stuff).  I saw nothing like this on my 
test boxes, although I can't say whether that was because I wasn't 
looking carefully enough or because it didn't happen on them.