[augeas-devel] Re: [Augeas] bbwarnrules.aug

[David Lutterkort]

On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 11:43 +0200, Raphaël Pinson wrote:

>         The problem is that a tree with two adjacent host nodes can
>         either be
>         processed as one 'record' that has two hosts or as two
>         'record'
>         instances with one host each, i.e. in the first case the
>         correct output
>         would be
>                host1 host2
>         whereas in the second, the correct output would be
>                host1
>                host2
>         (since record ends with a eol_no_spc) 
> 
> 
> 
> What I don't really get is that I think I specify a record as
> something that looks like 
> ! myhost;a;b;c;d;e;f
> 
> or 
> 
> myhost;a;b;c;d;e;f
> 
> as in, there _must_ be semi-colons on each record line, so a line like
> 'host/host/' is just not possible in this lens. Am I missing something
> to specify this ?

The complaint is about the tree -> file direction, and the semicolons
get dropped from the tree; Augeas needs to decide just by looking at the
tree which rule to follow. Your lens works fine in the file -> tree
direction, it's the tree -> file direction that is ambiguous.

David