[augeas-devel] cobbersettings lense

[Greg Swift]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 08:30, Dominic Cleal <dcleal at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

thats what I get for reading the resposne only on my phone before
responding.  I should have re-read when I got to my desktop (and just
incase anyways to not put my foot in my mouth)

thanks for straightening me out

-greg