[augeas-devel] [Augeas] #114: shellvars: ability to add comment to value

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#114: shellvars: ability to add comment to value
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 Reporter:  nxvl    |       Owner:  lutter
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  major   |   Milestone:  next  
Component:  Augeas  |     Version:  0.7.0 
 Keywords:          |  
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 From BTS #573411 [0]:

 "I am using augeas with puppet. I would like to add to each value
 I control with pupet a short comment along the lines of "MANAGED BY
 PUPPET". Unfortunately, augeas very strongly enforces a single value
 rule, such that setting e.g. /files/etc/default/rcS/TMPTIME to any
 of the following causes the save to fail:

   7 # MANAGED BY PUPPET
   "7 # MANAGED BY PUPPET"

 The only way to make it work is with either of the following two:

   "'7 # MANAGED BY PUPPET'"
   7#MANAGED_BY_PUPPET

 But both yield the wrong value: due to the quotes in the first, the
 comment will be included, and due to the missing space before the #,
 the comment is also considered part of the value.

 I appreciate the stringent syntax checking, but I think that

   "7 # MANAGED BY PUPPET"

 should be an acceptable value, because ' #' denotes a comment, which
 I think augeas could tolerate/allow.

 Thanks,"

 0. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573411

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