problem with copy stanza not firing

[John S J Anderson]

  Hi --

  I'm having a problem with cfengine. I've got a special class defined
  for a couple of machines, and a stanza in 'copy:' that should copy
  some special files to those two machines. Here are the relevant
  config file bits:

--START EXCERPT--
groups:
  blastqFunction        = ( blast003 blast013 )

copy:

        ## SOME SPECIFIC MACHINE FUNCTIONAL CLASSES
        blastqFunction::
                $(master)/BLAST/BLASTQ/etc/logrotate.d          
dest=/etc/logrotate.d
                                                                recurse=inf
                                                                type=checksum
                                                                backup=false
                                                                
server=$(policyhost)

        ## GENERIC FILES
        any::
                $(master)/GENERIC/etc                           dest=/etc
                                                                recurse=inf
                                                                type=checksum
                                                                backup=false
                                                                
server=$(policyhost)
--END EXCERPT--

  In general, things are working. I know this because the 'copy:any::'
  stanza fires on host 'blast003'. But the 'blastqFunction' stanza
  does *NOT* fire, even though 'blastqFunction' is listed in the
  'Defined classes' when cfagent is run (IPs elided):

Defined Classes = ( any cfengine_2_0_7p3 Tuesday Hr12 Min21 Min20_25 Q2 Hr12_Q2 
Day18 November Yr2003 linux blast003 32_bit linux_2_4_21_P3_4G i686 linux_i686 
linux_i686_2_4_21_P3_4G 
linux_i686_2_4_21_P3_4G__21_SMP_Tue_Sep_16_08_01_21_EDT_2003 
compiled_on_linux_gnu blast003_ncbi_nih_gov net_iface_lo net_iface_eth0 
www_xx_yy_zz blast003_ncbi_nlm_nih_gov www_xx_yy ipv4_www_xx_yy_zz 
ipv4_www_xx_yy ipv4_www_xx ipv4_www blastqFunction )

  Now the *really* screwy thing is that if I run 
  'cfagent -D blastqFunction', then (1) 'blastqFunction' moves forward
  in the list of defined classes, ending up right after
  'cfengine_2_0_7p3', and (2) now the 'copy:blastqFunction::' stanza
  fires.

  So, my question is, why isn't that stanza firing with a plain old
  'cfagent' run, since the class that should trigger it is defined?
  (And since that's what I'd like it to do, of course...)

  I'm pondering upgrading to 2.1, but from a quick scan of the
  ChangeLog, I didn't see anything that looked like it addresses this
  problem... 

thanks in advance for any help,
john.
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