[augeas-devel] Re: [PATCH] Support empty comments, like lines beginning with "; " or "#" but without any more text

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Raphaël,

|--==> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:48:08 +0200, "Raphaël Pinson" <raphink at gmail.com> said:

  RP> Now that's where I was left experimenting last week, and was down to that
  RP> same state. But then, I did something like this (which I cannot do right now
  RP> because I've played so much that my inifile.aug is broken on this machine
  RP> ;)).

  RP> * fire up augtool
  RP> * print an INI File with empty comments in it ('# \n' for example)
  RP> * change a value in this INI File (whatever value, really)
  RP> * save

  RP> When I tried this, augeas refused to save (since version 0.3.0, it worked
  RP> before), saying that NULL is not a proper value for the "#comment" node.
  RP> I've since tried with other stuff, like empty values in dput.aug (e.g.
  RP> 'pre_upload_command =', which is fine) and get the same result.

  RP> Could you try it on your side Free?

It happens here too, I'm using the bleeding-edge version from hg. To
reproduce it:

cat <<EOF > fakeroot/etc/dput.cf
# 
[DEFAULT]
login = username
EOF

cat <<EOF | augtool -I lenses/ -r fakeroot/
set /file/etc/dput.cf/target/login me
save
EOF

In my case the output looks like:

augtool> augtool> Saving failed
augtool>

This does not happen if you remove the emtpy comment.

Ciao,

Free