On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Etienne Goyer <[email protected]> wrote: > We discussed Augeas at a previous UDS (circa 2009, not sure when). It's > an interesting concept, and I think there is some value in it. > > Back then, the main problem was that Augeas identified configuration > files by path, and these where hard-coded for Red Hat. It's really not > a big deal, I guess that can be fixed, but is it still the case? >
Quite a few Debian paths have been added (and even Debian specificities) to the standard Augeas lenses. Lenses must know about standard OS paths for configuration files, but it's not a big deal to add these paths (either in Ubuntu as patches, in Augeas directly - I'm a committer -, or upstream if they take up maintenance). In order to avoid patching/forking, it's also possible to make new lenses that use the lens and modify the file filter, saying something like: use the httpd.aug lens on /etc/apache2/apache2.conf (this is already the case by default in httpd.aug, it's just to provide an example). Raphaël -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
