Re: Separate cfengine instance between update and main / package installation

[Mark Burgess]

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On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:42:38PM +0100, Jan Y. Brueckner wrote:
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> Hello everyone.
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> I want to insert a standalone cfengine programm between the update run
> and the main run. The idea behind is, that I want to syncronize a local
> package list against a master copy and then do the package installation
> using a bunch of shellcommands if the package list has changed. This
> obviously needs to be done before all configuration is done. I first
> thought about something like
> 
> actionsequence = ( copy.install shellcommands.install  otheractions
> ...copy shellcommands )
> 
> to give it a certain order. Is there anything to criticize about that
> way to do it? Is there a better way to do it? Methods maybe? How stable
> are methods already?  Since
> 
> 
> cfagent -v -n
> 
> gives me:
> 
> .
> .
> .
> 
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Summary of objects involved
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> ~    global
> ~    update
> ~    main
> 
> i thought ther must be some way to insert a seperate object?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your wisdom
> 
> Ian
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