[augeas-devel] Suggestion for relative paths in augtool

[David Lutterkort]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 11:25 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Say I want to set a bunch of parameters in the libvirt config file. It
> would be something like this
> 
>   # augtool
>   set /files/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf/listen_tls 0
>   set /files/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf/listen_tcp 1
>   set /files/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf/auth_tcp sasl
>   save
>   quit
> 
> That's passable when only setting a few parameters, but the more I want
> to change the more tedious it becomes to repeat the long path every time.
> Thus I'd like to suggest that augtool gets a command to change the base
> path that it resolves against, so I could do something like
> 
>    # augtool
>    basepath /files/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
>    set listen_tls 0
>    set listen_tcp 1
>    set auth_tcp sasl
>    save
>    quit

Yes, that would clearly be useful. Added to Trac[1]

David

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/augeas/ticket/13