Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving it back into native config files.
When you use Augeas to add users to groups, you might do that by first adding a new user node to the corresponding group (we’ll use kvm for the sake...
Often, when editing a config file from a program, one also wants to leave a comment alongside the change. When the change adds something to the config file, that’s fairly...
One of the nice things about having your configuration data in a uniform data structure like Augeas’ tree is that you can query it in a uniform way. A couple...
LXer has a very nice summary of Raphael’s talk on Augeas — though, contrary to what the author says, writing lenses (i.e., the plumbing that explains to Augeas how to...
Looking at the schedule for FOSDEM next week makes me regret that I am halfway around the world from Brussels — there’s a ton of talks I’d love to go...
Raphael has been doing a lot of work to make processing of INI-style files in Augeas easy and painless. It’s now at the point that you can describe /etc/php.ini in...
linux.com has a very nice article on Augeas. It’s a very nice overview and introduction. As embarrassed as I am by the bug the author ran into (blank lines in...
I just released Augeas 0.1.1; without really planning it, it turned out that the last two weeks were mostly spend on fixing bugs (besides the regular expression enhancement I blogged...
For Augeas, I wanted to support subtraction of regular expresions, so that you can say let key_re = /[A-Za-z]+/ - /(Allow|Deny)(Groups|Users)/ which would make key_re match all words made up...
A while ago I had what would be a hallway conversation with Mark if we worked in the same office (or country, for that matter.) Something he said set me...
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