[augeas-devel] New Augeas release soon?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:36:02AM -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible that Augeas could make a new tarball release soon?
> >
> 
> Yes, I'll try and get a release together next week Friday.
> 
> 
> > Libguestfs is currently carrying around two lenses (upstream in
> > Augeas, but not released), and this causes conflicts if either of
> > those lenses is added to a downstream package (as has been done in
> > RHEL 7.1).  And by "conflicts" I mean it breaks major features of
> > tools like virt-sysprep & virt-customize & more.
> >
> 
> Is there something that Augeas could do to help at least spot such issues
> sooner ? We've talked in the past about some sort of annotation to indicate
> lens compatibility, but that never went anywhere.
> 
> Is the breakage simply due to the fact that the upstream enses produce a
> tree that's different from the one that the virt-* tools expect ?

Pino, you're probably in a better position to answer this one ..

Rich.

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