Re: [etch-users] <dependcommand></dependcommand>

[Gareth G. <gar...@gm...>]

Thanks very much Pat, yea that does work.
Glad to be of help Jason, I am really liking etch a lot ;)

Gareth

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Jason Heiss <jh...@ap...> wrote:

> Whoops, good catch on the etchserver-{demo,samples} DTD files being out of
> date.  The copies within test/testrepo/ in the distribution tarball are
> correct and I've updated the others in subversion for future releases.
>
> Etch uses cpio extensively to move files around while preserving
> permissions, ownership, etc.  In order to use etch you'll need cpio
> installed on your clients before etch can do much of anything.
>
> Typically this would be done by having it as a dependency of the etch
> package (rpm, deb, etc.)  However your question led me to notice that it
> wasn't listed as a dependency in the packaging files included in the
> distribution.  On all of our Red Hat and Debian boxes cpio was installed as
> part of the base installation and I hadn't thought about cases where folks
> excluded it.  I've added cpio as an explicit dependency for the RPM spec and
> Debian control files.
>
> Jason
>
> On May 19, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Gareth Greener wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am in the process of moving from cfengine to etch but hitting a little
> snag.
> I noticed that the dependcommand is not allowed by default, so I edited the
> config.dtd to allow it, following the same syntax as depend.
>
> I have also created the relevant files and folders under commands for cpio
> to be installed.
>
> The problem I am having is that there are files that exist on my clients,
> however the cpio command is not installed so I am calling it with the
> <dependcommand> tags, but etch seems to ignore that if the file already
> exists on the client.
>
>
> Config.xml
> ----------------
> <config>
> <dependcommand>cpio</dependcommand>
>         <file>
>  <perms>644</perms>
>                 <source>
>                         <script>scriptfile.script</script>
>                 </source>
>         </file>
>         <post>
>                 <exec>/etc/init.d/ssh restart</exec>
>         </post>
> </config>
>
>
> Commands.xml
> -----------------------
> <commands>
>   <step>
>     <guard>
>       <exec>test -f /bin/cpio</exec>
>     </guard>
>     <command>
>       <exec>apt-get update &amp;&amp; apt-get -qq install cpio</exec>
>     </command>
>   </step>
> </commands>
>
>
> And I get the following error:
>
> Saving temporary copy of original file:  /etc/ssh/sshd_config ->
> /var/etch/orig/etc/ssh/sshd_config.TMP
> sh: cpio: not found
> Recursive copy /etc/ssh/sshd_config to
> /var/etch/orig/etc/ssh/sshd_config.TMP20110519-7810-ckicl4-0 failed
>
> -------------------------------
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Gareth
>
>
>