PATCH: ignore .rpm* debris in directories included in config files

-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:52 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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