How to set file mode but ignore content?

[infokiller]

Is it possible?

My first attempt was something like the following

SetFileProperty /etc/file mode 644
IgnorePath /etc/file

But that didn't work (and going through the code it was clear it shouldn't).

BTW, after this failed attempt, it seems file-owners was corrupted, causing an error in this line: https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr/blob/master/src/apply.bash#L658

The error was "src/apply.bash: line 658: file_owners[$file]: bad array subscript", and debugging a bit showed that $file and $package were empty.
I then kept getting this error in subsequent runs, even after I reverted the config change, since apparently $tmp_dir is not cleaned up between runs. Why is this the case? are there caching benefits?

Thanks!

[CyberShadow]

Is it possible?

You could do this by using the content of the file on the system:

cat /etc/file > "$(CreateFile /etc/file)"

I then kept getting this error in subsequent runs, even after I reverted the config change, since apparently $tmp_dir is not cleaned up between runs.

Whoops, "$tmp_dir"/file-owners indeed should have been cleared on every run. Fixed in 1c62749.

Why is this the case? are there caching benefits?

Yes, not clearing $tmp_dir enables --skip-inspection and --skip-config.

[infokiller]

Great, thanks a lot!