Pb with tidy

[Patrice GUERLAIS]

Hi all,

I've a problem with the tidy section, which I can call only once :-( I'm using 
cfengine 1.6.3 on Linux/RedHat 6.2.

I want to copy files and ensure that some of them are links rather than plain 
files. This needs to be done for multiple logical sets
of files, and I therefore want to organize my cfengine.conf file in order to 
reflect that logical structure :
- a first set of copy/tidy/links calls for the first set of files
- a second set of copy/tidy/links calls for the second set
- ...

The cfengine.conf file can look like (the copy calls have been removed, they 
have no influence on cfengine behaviour) :
<cut>
control:
        actionsequence = (
                # Deletes a first set of files, then creates links with the 
same names
                tidy.test1
                links.test1

                # Deletes a second set of files, then creates links with the 
same names
                tidy.test2
                links.test2
        )


tidy:
        test1::
                /tmp pat=test1 age=0

        test2::
                /tmp pat=test2 age=0

links:
        test1::
                /tmp/test1 -> /tmp/test.conf

        test2::
                /tmp/test2 -> /tmp/test.conf
</cut>

To perform the test, you have to :
- copy that file in /tmp 3 times, with the names 'test.conf', 'test1' and 
'test2'. They must be plain files.
- cd /tmp
- cfengine -f /tmp/test.conf
'test1' is destroyed and replaced with a link to test.conf, whereas 'test2' 
isn't deleted and can't be linked to test.conf.

If you remove the 'test2::' selector in the tidy section, everything is ok.
I tried splitting the tidy section in 2 parts, it changes nothing.

Any idea ?

Thanks for your help
Patrice