[augeas-devel] cobbersettings lense

[Dominic Cleal]

On 06/04/12 14:26, Greg Swift wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 07:10, Dominic Cleal <dcleal at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 04/04/12 23:44, Greg Swift wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 15:32, Dominic Cleal <dcleal at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> As mentioned on IRC, it would be nice to have Cobbler adopt the lenses
>>>> as part of their source tree.  There are some projects (libvirt,
>>>> corosync) that ship their own lenses, so this one could equally
>>>> "graduate" into Cobbler itself if they'd like it - preventing lag in
>>>> changes and fixes.
>>>
>>> That may be very doable.  although the 'getting there is an
>>> interesting concept to me, although I guess they can do a required
>>> augeas-libs >= version.
>>
>> If it was included in Cobbler then their packages could install it to
>> /usr/share/augeas/lenses which would override any older/broken lens
>> shipped by Augeas in /usr/share/augeas/lenses/dist.
> 
> We would still have to require a version of augeas that didn't provide
> the lense, because we can't provide a file that augeas-libs provides
> in our RPM.

They would be in different directories - the files under lenses/dist/
are shipped by Augeas packages, while those just under lenses/ are
supplied by other packages (libvirt, Cobbler etc).  Augeas will read
both directories and the Cobbler-shipped ones in lenses/ will take
precedence.

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Dominic Cleal
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