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Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico@kr.ethz.ch>

doc/dev/todo/niconext

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-Core:
-   - support $__self = relative_type/object_id
-
 Cache:
-   - add manpage
    - add example how to use 
    - export variable $__cache
       -> to all hosts or this host?
-
-   Assume you want to configure stuff one host ("monitor node"),
-   depending on the configuration of other hosts ("cluster nodes").
-
-   For instance, the monitor host would like to know,
-   which hosts are configured with the provider
-   "apache" and option --start true.
-
-   This requires the monitor node to be able to
-   query all other configured nodes. It can't
-   ask for all hosts, because cdist does not
-   know which hosts are configured or may exist.
-
-   Example implementation
-
-   If cdist keeps ("caches") the configuration of every
-   node it configures, each new node can query the
-   cache for existing nodes that acquired the given
-   configuration.
+Core:
+   - support $__self = relative_type/object_id

doc/man/cdist-cache.text

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+cdist-cache(1)
+==============
+Nico Schottelius <nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org>
+
+
+NAME
+----
+cdist-cache - Cache output of last run
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+cdist-cache TARGET_HOST
+
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+
+   Assume you want to configure stuff one host ("monitor node"),
+   depending on the configuration of other hosts ("cluster nodes").
+
+   For instance, the monitor host would like to know,
+   which hosts are configured with the provider
+   "apache" and option --start true.
+
+   This requires the monitor node to be able to
+   query all other configured nodes. It can't
+   ask for all hosts, because cdist does not 
+   know which hosts are configured or may exist.
+
+   Example implementation
+
+   If cdist keeps ("caches") the configuration of every
+   node it configures, each new node can query the 
+   cache for existing nodes that acquired the given
+   configuration.
+
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+cdist(7)
+
+
+COPYING
+-------
+Copyright \(C) 2011 Nico Schottelius. Free use of this software is
+granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).