Basically, I want the ability for my automation to handle certain parcels (e.g. CDH) at start time, but then after things are online, still allow users to add their own parcel repos and manage new parcels through the web UI. As it stands, this can't quite be done. ... View more

Thanks for the reply, @mostrows. Putting that file inside the directory does prevent it from being deleted, but I think there must be a bug (at least in CM 5.12.0, which I'm running).   In my case, I have the unpacked parcel in place when the machine comes up. If I don't activate it before re-enabling "Manage Parcels," CM undistributes it, but then the only option is to download it again, which doesn't skip and pulls the whole parcel from my online repo. If I do activate it before enabling "Manages Parcels," CM "undistributes" it (as you said it would) without deleting any files and then tries to activate it automatically, but then simply gets stuck in the "Activating" stage forever. ... View more