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On Tue, 26 May 2009 19:54:51 +0200
Jan Pazdziora <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm about to add script
> 
>       /usr/bin/spacewalk-cfg-get
> 
> to spacewalk-backend-tools. The script can be used to reliably
> retrieve configuration values from /etc/rhn/rhn.conf from non-Python
> environments, without having to do grep or awk, which have potential
> issues with commented lines, etc. This script uses rhnConfig to
> it should to the right thing.
> 
> The script is as simple as
> 
>       #!/usr/bin/python
> 
>       import sys
>       sys.path.append("/usr/share/rhn")
> 
>       from common.rhnConfig import RHNOptions
> 
>       cfg = RHNOptions()
>       cfg.parse()
> 
>       for i in sys.argv :
>               val = cfg.get(i)
>               if val != None :
>                       print val
> 
> Please shout if you do not like the idea if such a thing landing
> in Spacewalk repo tomorrow.

+1

> 
> Also, Mirek said he would like to use such a thing in Proxy but
> proxy only uses spacewalk-backend, not spacewalk-backend-tools.
> Would you object having such a /usr/bin script in spacewalk-backend?
> Presently the package only owns /etc/rhn/default/rhn.conf
> and /usr/share/rhn/common/* files.
> 

Also sounds good to me, seems logical that a simple tool to get the
rhn.conf values should come with the package that owns the file itself.


- -- 
  Devan Goodwin <[email protected]>
  Software Engineer     Spacewalk / RHN Satellite
  Halifax, Canada       650.567.9039x79267
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