RE: Suggestion: configurable default copy 'type=' value

[Martin, Jason H]

Here I thought I was being careful by rereading the copy: stanza before
I posted that even... I'm thinking that there should be some more
linkage in the doc between the individual actions stanzas and some of
the special variables that impact their behavior.

Thank you,
-Jason Martin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brendan Strejcek [mailto:brendan@cs.uchicago.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:42 PM
> To: Paul Krizak
> Cc: Martin, Jason H; help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Suggestion: configurable default copy 'type=' value
> 
> 
> How about this:
> 
>     
> http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Reference.html#defaultcopytype
> 
> Best,
> Brendan
> 
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> Paul Krizak 
> wrote:
> 
> > I second this request, but in a more general sense.  Perhaps a 
> > defaults:
> > section where you could set things like this?
> > 
> > Sounds to me like a version 3 thing, which I don't mind waiting for.
> > 
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> > 
> > Martin, Jason H wrote:
> > >Would it be possible to make the default copy 'type' configurable? 
> > >I'd like to be able to default all of the copy actions to 
> > >type=checksum instead of type=ctime. Having a default 
> value saves me 
> > >from having to enter the same data for each stanza and risk 
> > >forgetting it.
> > >
> > >Thank you,
> > >-Jason Martin
> > >
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