Re: "tidy" not deleting files from the future

[Paul Krizak]

yeah that's not exactly what I'm looking for either.  It doesn't scale 
at all for large groups of files, nevermind big trees of stuff (for 
example, we delete /usr/local, all of it, during install).  Usually when 
we need to do a true "force" of a delete, we just do a shellcommand of 
rm -f, and let it keep trying to delete the missing files forever.

I'd much rather use tidy in all situations, however.

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Brendan Strejcek wrote:
> Paul Krizak wrote:
>
>
> > Is there some way to tell cfengine, "Irregardless of anything about
> > the file except for its existence, please delete this file"? I don't
> > see anything like a "force" in the documentation.
>
>
> I know this is probably not what you are looking for, but I like it
> because it is concentually simpler.
>
>     classes:
>         foo_exists = ( FileExists(/path/to/foo) )
>     
>     shellcommands:
>         foo_exists::
>             "/bin/rm -f /path/to/foo"
>
> Best,
> Brendan
>
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