[augeas-devel] Re: [fedora-virt] ANNOUNCE: Augeas support added to libguestfs

[David Lutterkort]

On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 18:01 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:38:16AM -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 17:28 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 02:35:34PM +0200, Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> > > > I have augeas-devel-0.3.6-1.fc10.i386 and there is 0.5.0 in rawhide.
> > > > May be my library is too old.
> > 
> > Augeas 0.5.0 is also in updates-testing for F9 and F10 - just run 'yum
> > --enablerepo=updates-testing update augeas-devel'
> > 
> > It should hit the stable repos for F9 and F10 any day now ;)
> 
> That's good, but we might want to consider other distributions as well
> who might have older versions of Augeas.  (Although the dependency on
> fakechroot 2.9, released only a week ago, is absolute ...).

Yes, absolutely. As a sidenote, you can either test for presence of
specific API calls at buildtime (with the usual autotools macros) or
dynamically at runtime by checking for specific nodes in /augeas, e.g.
aug_load will be there if you have a node /augeas/load

David