From 5ed643e7c2bcf7844fa3f1123642004b42cebf65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Fancsali <fancsali@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:52:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] New type: __nop

---
 cdist/conf/type/__nop/gencode-remote | 21 +++++++++++
 cdist/conf/type/__nop/man.rst        | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 75 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 cdist/conf/type/__nop/gencode-remote
 create mode 100644 cdist/conf/type/__nop/man.rst

diff --git a/cdist/conf/type/__nop/gencode-remote b/cdist/conf/type/__nop/gencode-remote
new file mode 100755
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+#!/bin/sh -e
+#
+# 2021 Daniel Fancsali (fancsali@gmail.com)
+#
+# This file is part of cdist.
+#
+# cdist is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# cdist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with cdist. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+echo "All your base are belong to us." >&2
diff --git a/cdist/conf/type/__nop/man.rst b/cdist/conf/type/__nop/man.rst
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+cdist-type__nop(7)
+==================
+
+NAME
+----
+cdist-type__nop - Do nothing.
+
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+This type will literally do nothing; it's sole purpose is to provide an 'anchor point' in case one would have an empty manifest, but still needs to specify some dependencies.
+
+The only thing that one needs to specify is some kind of object name, which will be simply ignored.
+
+It is advisible, though, to provide a name based on the parent object's id, so to make this call unique.
+
+REQUIRED PARAMETERS
+-------------------
+None.
+
+
+OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
+-------------------
+None.
+
+
+BOOLEAN PARAMETERS
+------------------
+None.
+
+
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+    require="__othertype/foo" __nop $__object_id # Use parent object's id to make the name unique
+
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+*Nothing to see here...*
+
+AUTHORS
+-------
+Daniel Fancsali <fancsali@gmail.com>
+
+
+COPYING
+-------
+Copyright \(C) 2021 Daniel Fancsali. You can redistribute it
+and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.