[augeas-devel] Some ideas about how to use Augeas with IPA

[David Lutterkort]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 14:38 -0400, Dmitri Pal wrote:

> As a result a new line in file appears
> 
> test;test-machine;test-service;test-role;bla:bla:bla
> 
> Now I update it:
> 
> augtool> set /files/etc/selinux/targeted/senew/100/user test;user
> augtool> save
> 
> Save should have failed since it creates the file that can't be parsed
> back properly. It succeeds and file now has:
> 
> test;user;test-machine;test-service;test-role;bla:bla:bla


Ugh .. that's a bonafide bug; I'll need to add a check for that.

> As for other issues, unfortunately we do not have the code to do what I
> am talking about. But I will try to create some examples to illustrate
> the issues. It will take me some time since I am focusing on other
> things at the moment and not ready to start developing things myself.

Cool .. looking forward to it.

David