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

[Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier < >]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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 wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Andrea Campi wrote:
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>> 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.
>

Hummm... I'm curious... why's that?

BTW, thanks for the link :-)

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Juanje