Todo: Suggestion for 'replace' command.

[libguestfs.git] / TODO

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@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121684&package_id=150116
 
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-BufferIn and BufferOut should turn into <char *, int> and simple
-strings in other languages that can handle 8 bit clean strings.
+BufferIn should turn into <char *, int> and simple strings in other
+languages that can handle 8 bit clean strings.
+
 Limit on transfers would still be 2MB for these types.
  - then implement write-file properly
- - and implement read-file
 
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@@ -121,12 +121,9 @@ Extra commands / functionality:
     grep (do it locally using pipe?)
     dd (?)
     ln / ln -s
-    mknod
     readlink
     utime / utimes / futimes / futimens / l..
-    mkfifo
     more mk*temp calls
-    readdir / readdir-and-stat
     some sort of alloc/fallocate/posix_fallocate call to create empty space
     realpath
     trunc[ate??]
@@ -160,10 +157,6 @@ Allow swap space from the guest to be used.  Is it a good idea?
 
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-Allow memsize to be configured (ie. guestfs_set_memsize etc)
-
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-
 Need a way to query a binary or library file for its architecture.
 Using objdump or readelf?
 What about non-ELF files (eg. Windows, BSD).
@@ -183,3 +176,25 @@ Other initrd-* commands, such as:
 
 initrd-extract
 initrd-replace
+
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+
+Some easy non-Augeas methods to edit configuration files.
+I'm thinking:
+
+  replace /etc/file key value
+
+which would look in /etc/file for any instances of
+
+  key=...
+  key ...
+  key:...
+
+and replace them with
+
+  key=value
+  key value
+  key:value
+
+That would solve about 50% of reconfiguration needs, and for the
+rest you'd use Augeas, 'download'+'upload' or 'edit'.