RE: Relative imports.

[Wheeler, John]

You should be able (I haven't tested this so I may be full of it) to just 
define CFINPUTS in the control section:

CFINPUTS = ( /my/own/path )

I believe you should also be able to redefine CFINPUTS in subsequent import 
files. So your value of CFINPUTS could be dependent on where you are in parsing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Deragon [mailto:hans@deragon.biz] 
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:12 AM
To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
Subject: Relative imports.

Greetings.


Newbie here.  I have built many little cfengine scripts to modularize 
fonctionnality.  The scripts are stored in subdirectories and import other
scripts under other subdirectories.  There is however one thing I do not really 
like and that is that in the import statements, I have to provide the full path 
after $CFINPUTS.

   This is what I would like to be able to do:

File $CFINPUTS/A.cf:

   import:

      linux:: linux/B.cf

File $CFINPUTS/linux/B.cf:

   import:

      redhat:: redhat/C.cf

File $CFINPUTS/linux/redhat/C.cf:

   import:

     redhat_9::  9/D.cf

You get the picture?  For the moment, I must write file C.cf as:

   import:

      redhat_9::  linux/redhat/9/D.cf

...but I would like to avoid having to prepend the import statement with 
¨linux/redhat¨.  The main reason is that as I work, I might want to reorganise 
later the directories.  For instance, I might move the scripts from 
¨linux/redhat/9¨ to ¨linux/redhat/i386/9¨.  But this would require me to edit 
all the scripts under the ¨9¨ directory.

Is there any way to reassign CFINPUTS locally in a script?


Best regards,
Hans Deragon
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