[augeas-devel] Re: augeas: parsing one file only

[Raphaël Pinson]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Jan Kupec <jkupec at suse.cz> wrote:

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> Hi Raphael!
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> I visited your presentation about Augeas at this year's FOSDEM. Cool
> stuff! I'm considering using it for handling configuration files of our
> package management software (libzypp/zypper) so i'm experimenting with
> it these days a bit.



Cool :)



> I'm wondering whether it's possible to parse just one specific file with
> augeas somehow. It appears that it reads all the files known to the
> autoload-enabled modules when starting augtool or calling aug_init().
> This is rather slow compared to parsing just one file, if that's exactly
>  one's intention.
>
> One way to achieve this is having the root parameter to augtool or
> aug_init() point to a root tree containing only the desired file. But i
> would like to ask whether there is some other way (even planned). Or is
> it intentional not to allow such use case?



This is a common request. You can have a look at the ticket associated with
it [0] and the links in it.
I am sure that David would be happy to get a patch for it.



> Thanx for working on the excellent tool, btw!
>


David is the one to thank :)



Regards,

Raphaël


[0] https://fedorahosted.org/augeas/ticket/42



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