Viktor Dukhovni:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 02:20:41AM +0200, Bostjan Skufca wrote:
>
> > I am sending this email because I think that we need to do something
> > about it, and hope that this will help communicate valid ideas around.
>
> It is not difficult to merge main.cf fragments without creating
> duplicate definitions of parameters. The warnings are useful for
> users who accidentally define the same setting twice.
>
> > Does anyone else think this "issue" needs attention?
>
> A simple merge script will suffice:
I sent a solution that uses "postconf -n >file" to produce a file
without duplicates.
Wietse
> --
> Viktor.
>
> #! /usr/pkg/bin/perl -w
>
> sub parse {
> my ($s, $l) = @_;
> if ($s =~ m{^(\S+?)\s*=\s*(.*?)\s*$}) {
> $dict{$1} = $2;
> } else {
> print STDERR $s, "\n";
> die sprintf("%s: malformed setting at line %d\n", $ARGV, $l);
> }
> }
> while (<>) {
> chomp;
> next if (/^\s*(#|$)/);
> if (m{^\s}) { $buf .= $_; next }
> parse($buf, $line) if defined($buf);
> $buf = $_; $line = $.;
> } continue {
> if (eof) {
> parse($buf, $line) if defined($buf);
> close ARGV;
> undef $buf;
> }
> }
> foreach $k (sort keys %dict) {
> printf "%s = %s\n", $k, $dict{$k};
> }
>
