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Defaults is <em>not</em> a Generator plugin, so it does not actually bind an entry; Defaults are applied after an entry has been bound, and only populate attributes that are not yet set.</p> <p>Like <a class="reference internal" href="../generators/rules.html#server-plugins-generators-rules"><em>Rules</em></a>, Defaults supports regular expressions in the name attribute.</p> <p>For instance, to make all Service entries use the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">systemd</span></tt> tool on Fedora 15 and the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">chkconfig</span></tt> tool on Fedora 14, you could do:</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre><Defaults priority="0"> <Group name="fedora-15"> <Service name=".*" type="systemd"/> </Group> <Group name="fedora-14"> <Service name=".*" type="chkconfig"/> </Group> </Defaults></pre> </div> <p>If you were to specify a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">type</span></tt> attribute for a Service entry in Rules (or a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">type</span></tt> attribute for a BoundService entry in Bundler), that would take precendence over the default.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="base.html" title="previous chapter">Base</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="deps.html" title="next chapter">Deps</a></p> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../../../_sources/server/plugins/structures/defaults.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <form class="search" action="../../../search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> <p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%"> Enter search terms or a module, class or function name. </p> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../../../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../../../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="deps.html" title="Deps" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="base.html" title="Base" >previous</a> |</li> <li><a href="../../../index.html">home</a> | </li> <!--<li><a href="../../../search.html">search</a> | </li>--> <li><a href="../../../help/index.html">help</a> | </li> <li><a href="../../../contents.html">documentation </a> »</li> <li><a href="../../../contents.html" >Bcfg2 documentation 1.3.0</a> »</li> <li><a href="../../index.html" >The Bcfg2 Server</a> »</li> <li><a href="../index.html" >Plugins</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer"> © Copyright 2009-2013, Narayan Desai. 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