Augeas Question

[Pete Hartman]

I hope this is an appropriate place for this question; if not, any redirection to a more appropriate place is appreciated.

So: I'm trying to set up puppet + augeas on an opensolaris system.  There are certain files I have that are under RCS version control--this is not all my doing, so some of these things I cannot change.  This creates files under /etc/ that are like "filename,v".

I'm using puppet 2.7.22 and augeas 1.0.0.

Well, augtool, and apparently augeas invoked via puppet throw up on this.  Augtool reports

Failed to initialize Augeas

error: Invalid path expression

error: garbage at end of path expression

/augeas/files/etc/default/nfs|=|,v

I just want augeas to ignore these files...

I think the answer is to modify the /usr/local/share/augeas/lenses/dist/*.aug files that refer to things that are causing this grief and add excl clauses to explicitly exclude anything *,v. 

For example in shellvars.aug we have

let filter_default = incl "/etc/default/*"

    . excl "/etc/default/grub_installdevice*"

    . excl "/etc/default/whoopsie"

I've added 

    . excl "/etc/default/*,v"

This appears to work.  But I'm not sure this is the "right" solution -- should I perhaps be making a copy of this to somewhere else and override the dist version?  Is there a more global way I could say "ignore all files that have ,v after them" ?

Thanks

Pete

[Kenton Brede]

Not ab augeas expert but IIRC what I did in a similar situation is force puppet/augeas to point to only one file.

Try adding "context," "incl," and "lens" to your augeas definition, like the example below.  By specifying the lens, I think it helps speed up the augeas type also.  At least I read that somewhere.  :)

  augeas { 'selinux_config':
    context => '/files/etc/selinux/config',
    incl    => '/etc/selinux/config',
    lens    => 'Shellvars.lns',
    changes => "set SELINUX ${selinux_state}",
  }

If I need to customize a lens, I stick it in /usr/share/augeas/lenses and manage it with puppet.  I leave the lenses in /dist/ alone.
Kent 

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