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

[Raphaël Pinson]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Free Ekanayaka <free at 64studio.com> wrote:

> 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


Try

cat <<EOF | augtool -I lenses/ -r fakeroot/
set /files/etc/dput.cf/target/login me
save
get /augeas/files/etc/dput.cf/error/message
EOF

To get more info



Raphaël
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