Bart Smaalders wrote:
Philip Brown wrote:
It would be very nice if sun provided a mechanism in IPS, that allowed
for
[file assembly, or file editing like above], that was well documented,
well advertised, and appropriately named and placed.
File editing isn't a reversible operation so it's out; file assembly is
tractable.
I'm not sure what "file assembly" really refers to. So I will limit my
comments to my concept of "file editing".
The most common type of "file editing" needed that I have seen, is a fairly
limited case. It's one that sun does in a fair amount of its own pkgs, and
amounts to basically just inserting some lines in a file, bounded by some
magic string.
eg:
#### This is for pkg SUNWfoopkg
blah blah
blahblahblah
#### End of SUNWfoopkg section
That sort of file editing is most definately, and almost trivially, reversible.
Thus, I think IPS should offer a clean mechanism for doing such operations.
The simple braindead version, would be "append it to end of file". Such as
/etc/services style addons.
An optional enhancement to such a mechanism, would be to support optional
file section tags, where sun would define some format for document location
tags. document/config files that need to be compatible with the mechanism,
would then provide the tags in appropriate locations.
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