cat << eof Hey hackers, cdist has not been published, you're accessing a early in developent code. Do not believe anything written in cdist, besides what's written in this file (everything else may be future stuff for the initial release). -- Nico, 20101201 What you can do so far: (executed from top level directory) The following code will get executed if you run this README, I usually do it like this: % rm -rf /tmp/localhost && ./HACKERS_README eof # Tell the user what we do, so this script makes sense during execution set -x # Abort on any error set -e # prepare use (only from top level directory) export PATH="$PATH:$(pwd -P)/bin" export __cdist_config="$(pwd -P)/conf" __cdist_out_objects=/tmp/localhost/objects __cdist_out_explorers=/tmp/localhost/explorers __cdist_out_execs=/tmp/localhost/exec # Run explorer on a "remote" host cdist-explorer-run localhost "$__cdist_out_explorers" # Display result find "$__cdist_out_explorers" # Test first level manifest execution cdist-manifest-init localhost "$__cdist_out_objects" # See what it generated find "$__cdist_out_objects" # Generate all objects, including from types that generate objects as well cdist-manifest-run-all localhost "$__cdist_out_objects" # See what it generated find "$__cdist_out_objects" # Generate code for all objects in object dir cdist-object-codegen-all localhost "$__cdist_out_objects" "$__cdist_out_execs" # Display result, including permissions ls -lR "$__cdist_out_execs" # Transfer generated code cdist-exec-transfer localhost "$__cdist_out_execs" # Execute generated code cdist-exec-run localhost