RE: [hobbit] PATCH: ignore .rpm* debris in directories included in config files

["Cleaver, Japheth" <jcleaver (at) soe.sony.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:52 AM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Cc: Cleaver, Japheth
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] PATCH: ignore .rpm* debris in directories
included
> in config files
> 
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:51:35 Cleaver, Japheth wrote:
> > This patch alters hobbit-wide "directory" include reading logic to
skip
> > files that have been replaced or left over by an RPM install.
> > Specifically, we're splitting hobbitlaunch.cfg into a directory of
> > files, but we don't want to read in things tweaked by a package
upgrade;
> > and there's no way to exclude those in the syntax...
> 
> My original proposal for this feature was to support an include
syntax,
> (e.g. include /etc/xymon/hobbitlaunch.d/*.cfg), but this was not
accepted > and instead implemented with the include syntax.
> 
> However, a hard-coded rpm-specific solution is probably not going to
be
> any more attractive to merge ...
> 

True, a specific include (a la apache's default "include conf.d/*.conf")
would be nice. But there are already exceptions in the code for things
like RCS and .dotfiles. The jump from properly ignoring RCS ",v" stuff
to coping with package-managed versioning as well isn't too far, I don't
think.

-jc