On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 09:28 +0200, Nicolas Turpault wrote: > I try to use Augeas to generate configuration files but I have 2 > problems with the interfaces lenses.
Just for the record: what version of Augeas are you using ? And what platform ? > - If I use the following code: > augtool> set /files/etc/network/interfaces/iface[1] lo > augtool> set /files/etc/network/interfaces/iface[1]/family inet > augtool> set /files/etc/network/interfaces/iface[1]/method loopback > augtool> save > /usr/share/augeas/lenses/interfaces.aug:76.16-80.67:Short split for concat > Saving failed > > I have the folling error and the interfaces files is not generate : > > /usr/share/augeas/lenses/interfaces.aug:76.16-80.67:Short split for concat > Saving failed Yeah, that's an error in the lens since it makes a comment after the interface mandatory; I'll look into fixing that. > I have to add a command to generate the files, it's not a very important > error but when we see the lences it seems that the comment is optionnal. It absolutely should be > - My second problem is also with comment, > With the following code: > augtool> set /files/etc/network/interfaces/iface[1] lo > augtool> set /files/etc/network/interfaces/iface[1]/family inet > augtool> set /files/etc/network/interfaces/iface[1]/method loopback > augtool> set /files/etc/network/interfaces/iface[1]/#comment lo > augtool> save > Saved 1 file(s) > > It generate the following file: > iface lo inet loopback# lo Yeah, that's a problem with comment - it accepts whitespace before the '#' when it parses, but when you write a completely new node out, it doesn't add a comment. To fix that, we probably have to distinguish between a comment that's an entire line (in which case we don't want a space before the '#' by default) and an end-of-line comment where we do want that. David _______________________________________________ augeas-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/augeas-devel
