Re: Long standing copy bug?

[Paul Krizak]

Agreed.  I have run into this same situation, and finally just quit 
using the purge thingy since it was driving me insane and doing very odd 
things to my target respository.

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Adam M. Dunn wrote:
> Yep, which is what I see too so the manual contradicts that.  Since a 
> purge is only supposed to happen on files that exist on the target but not
> the source, and the manual says that using ignore with a purge will not
> purge the file, then any ignore=file on a purge copy should skip those
> files that exist on the target but not the source.
>
> I think a Cfengine just needs to be fixed to work according that both
> scenarios which would make the most sense to me.  If an ignore is defined,
> it should truly ignore everything, source and destination, whether files
> are there or not.
>
>
> ~a
>
>
>  On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Nielsen, Steve wrote:
>
>
> > Through experimentation I have found that if you create the file in the
> > master area (zero length is okay)  and it exists on the destination then
> > it will be ignored.  If the file does NOT exist in  master area if will
> > be deleted on a purge.
> >
> > Steve
>
>
>
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