Re: cfengine, debconf and ldap [now editfiles]

[Brendan Strejcek]

Steve Wray wrote:

> The set of trivial things for editfiles to do turns out to be pretty
> small!

Disagree. Here are a few counterexamples:

    DeleteLinesStarting "foo="
    AppendIfNoSuchLine "# The reason for setting foo to bar is ..."
    AppendIfNoSuchLine "foo=bar"
    PrependIfNoSuchLine "# Edited by cfengine"

    AutoCreate
    EmptyEntireFilePlease
    InsertFile "file.header"
    InsertFile "file.${fqhost}"
    InsertFile "file.footer"

However, more than the rest of cfengine, editfiles allows you to shoot
yourself in the foot. What we need is a cfengine 2 editfiles style
guide.

Best,
Brendan

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