Debian still having trouble with merged /usr

Posted Apr 12, 2022 10:05 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Debian still having trouble with merged /usr by smurf
Parent article: Debian still having trouble with merged /usr

One other very interesting approach is https://augeas.net/ - instead of translating a custom text/YAML into configuration files, it provides a uniform interface to most configs. I'm honestly stumped why it's not used more widely.

Debian still having trouble with merged /usr

Posted Apr 12, 2022 11:04 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

Augeas is a tool I have used before including via Puppet. It’s error messages can be cryptic and it seems unmaintained now.

Debian still having trouble with merged /usr

Posted Apr 12, 2022 19:56 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Looking at their Github history, there seems to be a fair amount of activity. I guess there's just not that much stuff that needs changing, apart from lense updates.