augtool does not properly parse /etc/cups/*.conf

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,

augtool has lenses intended to parse /etc/cups/*.conf, which do not work as expected. Do a

augtool print /files/etc/cups/cupsd.conf

It presents directives as

/files/etc/cups/cupsd.conf/directive[4] = "Listen"
/files/etc/cups/cupsd.conf/directive[4]/arg = "localhost:631"

which makes it difficult to automatically change data. Usually augtool should give something like .../cupsd.conf/Listen[0]...

regards

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: augeas-tools 1.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-16.36-generic 3.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Mar 10 13:07:21 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-29 (314 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130214)
SourcePackage: augeas
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-05 (5 days ago)

[Raphaël Pinson (raphink)]

This tree is the intended behavior. It is the same as the Httpd lens for Apache configuration files.

What exactly does that prevent you from modifying?

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for your report.

Since this is the intended behaviour, I don't think it qualifies as a bug in the augeas package in Ubuntu. Augeas upstream would be a better venue for discussing this sort of change - particularly since changing the tree would break everyone else relying on the existing behaviour.

Since this is not a bug in Ubuntu, I'm marking this bug as Invalid in Ubuntu, but feel free to raise the issue elsewhere, or even to continue to discuss it here.