[augeas-devel] New Augeas release soon?

[Pino Toscano]

On Friday 31 October 2014 17:40:56 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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 ?

No, the resulting situation is that there are two lenses handling the 
same file, and thus none of them is used (Augeas correctly reports that 
error).

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Pino Toscano