[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: where is the better place for this code?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Andrea Campi wrote:

> Would be useful indeed.
> We use FreeBSD a lot, and since we started using Chef I moved away
> from a monolithic /etc/rc.conf to one file per service in
> /etc/rc.conf.d
> This somewhat reduces our need for in-place editing of files, but here
> and there the requirements comes out again.
>  
> Given it's not FreeBSD-specific, I keep hoping someone will beat me to
> it—otherwise at some point I'll sit down and look at it.
> Maybe on the flight to the Chef Summit :)
>  
> Andrea  
Chef already has code for this: 
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/lib/chef/util/file_edit.rb

That said, you really should do whatever you can to avoid using 
search/replace.

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Dan DeLeo