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Re: repository doesn't like variables?
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Marion Hakanson |
Subject: |
Re: repository doesn't like variables? |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:45:07 -0800 |
> Running cfengine 2.0.5:
>
> The repository directive (in the control: section) doesn't like
> variables. The following throws a parsing error:
>
> workdir = ( /var/cfengine )
> repository = ( $(workdir)/myrepository )
>
> but this does not:
>
> repository = ( /var/cfengine/myrepository )
>
>
> The specific error message is the line number and "File repository must
> be an absolute dirtecotry name".
>
> This happening to anyone else?
Yep. Actually, this behavior is an improvement. It used to be that
it would just silently ignore such a setting, if I recall correctly.
Under 2.0.5pre2, the following works:
cf_repository = ( "$(cf_workdir)/rep" )
repository = ( "$(cf_repository)" )
I haven't yet tried this in 2.0.5.
Regards,
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Marion Hakanson <address@hidden>
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