Hi all,
I have a software package that I'm trying to install and keep up to
date via CFEngine using the copy action. Upon first installation of
this software package, I need to create several data directories and
populate them with some initial data files. After these directories
have been installed, I don't want to touch the contents of them.
Using the ctime and mtime parameters to copy doesn't work in our case
because the software package I am installing may have deleted a file
in the data directory, and I don't want it to come back when cfengine
runs. Additionally, when we un-tar a new release of the software
package into our masterfiles tree, the creation time on the data
directory may change. We don't want this to trigger CFEngine to copy
over the data files.
I was thinking of using a files action to check for the existence of
the data directory and set define a class, but our action_sequence is
defined such that the copy action is run before the files action.
This is because we have some files that we copy over, then check the
permissions with the files action. Switching their order would leave
us in the wrong state.
Does anybody have a suggestion for copying a directory once and only
once, and then leaving the contents of that directory alone after that?
Thanks,
Geoff
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