allow users to check whether an object changed

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

bin/cdist

@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ class Cdist:
          ]
          for bin in paths:
             if os.path.isfile(bin):
-               # omit "gen" from gencode and 
+               # omit "gen" from gencode and use it for output base
                outfile=os.path.join(self.object_dir(cdist_object), 
                   os.path.basename(bin)[3:])
 
@@ -507,6 +507,10 @@ class Cdist:
                   # Add header and make executable - identically to 0o700
                   os.chmod(outfile, stat.S_IXUSR | stat.S_IRUSR | stat.S_IWUSR)
 
+                  # Mark object as changed
+                  open(os.path.join(self.object_dir(cdist_object), "changed"), "w").close()
+
+
       if mode == "code":
          local_dir   = self.object_dir(cdist_object)
          remote_dir  = self.remote_object_dir(cdist_object)

doc/changelog

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2.0.1:
-	* Bugfix cdist: Always print source of error in case of exec errors
+	* Bugfix core: Always print source of error in case of exec errors
+	* Bugfix core: Various smaller bugs in string concatenation
+	* Feature: Add marker "changed" to changed objects
 
 2.0.0: 2011-09-16
 	* New Type: __package_rubygem (Chase Allen James)

doc/man/cdist-reference.text.sh

@@ -154,6 +154,16 @@ done
 cat << eof
 
 
+OBJECTS
+-------
+For object to object communication and tests, the following paths are
+usable within a object directory:
+
+changed::
+   This empty file exists in an object directory, if the object has
+   code to be excuted (either remote or local)
+
+
 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
 ---------------------
 __explorer::