Interesting thought. Basically, you are suggesting that the template generate an intermediate file, and then in a separate step, I'd use something like sed or awk to insert the actual time stamp.
Thank you! I knew somebody had a solution for my problem!
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Subject: [chef] Re: Using time stamps in a template?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 < > wrote:
> 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.
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> The use case is for generating a DNS zone file and updating the serial number only when there was a change.
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> Is there a common solution for this problem in Chef?
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