Changed behavior of the Directory Copy Action

  • 3868169
  • 02-Apr-2008
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management

Situation

With the original released version of ZENworks Configuration Management (10.0.0) the directory copy copied the source directory to the destination directory. With the ZCM 10.0.1 and above the content of the source directory will be copied to the destination directory.
As an example:
with 10.0.0, copying

to target directory "dest" would result in this structure

the whole structure has been copied below the target.
The new behavior, with 10.0.1 onwards, copying

to target directory "dest" would result in this structure

the content of the source has been copied to the directory, without the top-level directory itself.

Resolution

This change allows more flexibility in the naming of the directory.

Existing Directory copy actions will need to be modified.