Re: Inline macros or plugin

[Lyndon C. Lim]

On Friday 20 August 2004 14:07, Mark wrote:
> I have a task that I want to call for a bunch of classes that always repeats
> the same configuration, except for one or two values.
> Something like:
> 
> ....
> Copy:
>   case1::
>     somedir/case1/
>       dest=/newdir/case1
> 
>   case2::
>     somedir/case2/
>       dest=/newdir/case2
> 
>   case3::
>     somedir/case3/
>       dest=/newdir/case3
> ....
> 
> Etc. etc. The actual configuration is much longer, so I have to deal with a
> lot of redundancy and duplication...

I had exactly the same thought.  My conclusion
is create an m4 version of my configuration files.

I will have a directory which the sources files are
written in m4.  Using a Makefile, I pass my source
through m4 to generate the actual cfengine configuration
files.  Then, I have targets to verify the syntax is
correct, prior to installation in /var/cfengine/inputs.

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