[augeas-devel] Lenses Interfaces not generating correct syntax

[Nicolas Turpault]

David Lutterkort wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
I'm using the package from Debian testing (0.4.0).

>> - 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.
> 

ok. Thanks for your answer, if I have something pretty to fix this I 
just let you know.

> David
> 
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