[Freedombox-discuss] Best way to get involved?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-02-05 at 09:35pm, Michael Rauch wrote:
> On 02/05/2012 07:35 PM, James Vasile wrote:
> 
> >Every once in a while I post a list of tasks to this list.  I should 
> >put them on a web page.  Here are some current todos.  If you are 
> >interested in any of these, please contact me for more information.
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >Config layer design.  We would like the front end to talk to a middle 
> >layer that handles system config.  That middle layer then talks to 
> >the system and sets options (e.g. by twiddling text files).  No work 
> >had been done on that middle layer so far and it needs to be designed 
> >from the ground up.
> 
> RedHat's Augeas project might fit in the config middle layer: 
> http://augeas.net/
> 
> The website says: "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."

Augeas can be optionally used with Config::Model.  The Debian packaging 
of Config::Model::Backend::Augeas describes them like this:

> Config::Model and Augeas are both configuration editing tool. Both 
> parse 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.
> 
> Both Augeas and Config::Model rely on a tree to represent 
> configuration data.
> 
> On one side, Augeas is able to load and write data while respecting 
> the structure and comments of the original configuration file. But 
> Augeas purpose is not to validate the semantic content of the 
> configuration file.
> 
> On the other side, Config::Model is able to validate the semantic 
> content of the configuration file, but it will discard all comments 
> and will write back configuration data using a canonical order. Thus 
> the comments and structure of the original configuration file is not 
> preserved.

More on Config::Model here: http://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrade

...and its use with FreedomBox here: 
http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/BoxConfiguration


Regards,

 - Jonas

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