defining moduleslist variabele

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:13:58PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can anyone tell me how the *.var files are processed.  Are the
> variables appended to each other or are they overwritten?

overwritten if not specified otherwise.

> I now have a machine antserv02 that has (amongst others) the following
> classes defined: ANTSERV02 and OPENAFSCLIENT
> 
> In ANTSERV02.var I have 
> moduleslist="tulip"
> 
> and in OPENAFSCLIENT.var I have
> moduleslist="openafs"

Since the files will be processed in alphabetical order, you will
end up with

moduleslist="openafs"

You may modify this by writing 
moduleslist="$moduleslist openafs"
which will append. (ba)sh semantics...

> When the machine is installed the tulip module is not loaded.

Of course, not.

> It seems to me that the the moduleslist variabele is overwritten and
> not expanded.  Or am I doing something wrong?

Depends... FAI is doing what you told it to do...

Cheers,
 Steffen

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