Re: copy and editfiles on the same file

[Paul Krizak]

This is a pretty common problem discussed on this list, and there have 
been many suggestions to solve it.

Browse around through the archives; you're bound to find some useful 
information.

In early November there was a discussion with subject "editfiles 
methodology question" that discussed some of these issues.

I also started a discussion that got into this topic in a thread titled 
"ctime vs checksum in copies".

Finally, there was a discussion just a couple weeks ago titled 
"editfiles template; multiple edits; setting a class on update" that 
brought up some of these issues.

There are probably more -- I found these by searching for 
"ExpandVariables" in my e-mail archive.

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chove@crans.org wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to copy a file from my main server and then edit it (add lines
> containing the name of the server).
>
> So my conf files seems to :
>
> copy:
>   ${basefiles}/etc/test       dest=/etc/test
>                               server=${policyhost}
> editfiles:
>   { /etc/test
>     ...
>   }
> 				      
> But the copy/editfiles is done every time if run cfrun, because copy see
> that the files changed so copy it again, and edit file too.
>
> Is there a solution for editfiles not changes informations used by copy
> directive ?
>
> Thanks.