On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 05:54 -0400, Christopher Harvey wrote: > What if I don't have root permissions, but want to get a diff anyway? My > first thought was to have augeas save into /tmp/foo but I can't figure out > how to do it. I read the docs but no mention of this feature. I could write > a patch myself if this is an interesting feature and it doesn't already > exist.
You are right - there's no way to tell Augeas to save into a different dir than the one from which it read the initial files. Adding a 'save as ..' feature will require a little care, since Augeas has to read the original file again during save. One simple way out of this is to change the root directory for Augeas when you start it, i.e. copy the files you are interested in to some other directory (e.g., 'cp /etc/hosts /tmp/myroot/etc/hosts') and then tell Augeas about that new root e.g. with 'augtool -r /tmp/myroot' David _______________________________________________ augeas-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/augeas-devel
