User story #6246
closedFeature idea: Allow other variable types when using the cfengine variable technique
Description
(I probably told everyone by now I'm missing this, but never opened a feature req on it... till now)
Currently the technique only allows using string parameters.
For many cases one would wish to be able to at least define an slist parameter.
Classic example: RPM installs, you might need to give 10 or 20 and lose a lot of visibility if you i.e. add 20 package install steps in NCF.
Using a global .cf file is possible but the automatic "scoping" to a certain group of nodes is then lost, along with the visibility in UI.
Note:
As far as I understood, the ncf method would be able to handle this input and not just strings. I have not tried, but even if it blows up when using an slist, that's not a problem with being able to define the list.
I really think that would be highly desirable.