[chef] Re: Using time stamps in a template?

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

You would have to implement the idempotence check yourself separate from the 
file contents. You could do something like make a template with the serial 
always set to 0, and use a notification that when that template changes 
trigger a ruby_block to bump the serial number on disk and write out the real 
template.

--Noah

On May 25, 2015, at 8:26 AM, Kevin Keane Subscription 
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> I am looking for a way to put a time stamp into a template, *without* 
> causing the file to be regenerated on each chef run. I want the time stamp 
> to be updated only if something else has changed in the template, as well.
> 
> The use case is for generating a DNS zone file and updating the serial 
> number only when there was a change.
> 
> Is there a common solution for this problem in Chef?
> 
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