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Editing whitespace-separated config files with cfengine

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Diego Zamboni
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Diego Zamboni

# Sets the RHS of configuration items in the file of the form
# LHS RHS
# If the line is commented out with #, it gets uncommented first.
# Adds a new line if none exists.
# The argument is an associative array containing v[LHS]="rhs"
# Based on set_variable_values from cfengine_stdlib.cf, modified
# by Diego Zamboni to use whitespace as separator, and to handle
# commented-out lines.
bundle edit_line set_config_values(v)
{
vars:
"index" slist => getindices("$(v)");
# Be careful if the index string contains funny chars
"cindex[$(index)]" string => canonify("$(index)");
field_edits:
# If the line is there, but commented out, first uncomment it
"#+$(index)\s+.*"
edit_field => col("\s+","1","$(index)","set");
# match a line starting like the key something
"$(index)\s+.*"
edit_field => col("\s+","2","$($(v)[$(index)])","set"),
classes => if_ok("not_$(cindex[$(index)])");
insert_lines:
"$(index) $($(v)[$(index)])",
ifvarclass => "!not_$(cindex[$(index)])";
}