[LEDE-DEV] Stock config files as templates

[Michael Heimpold]

Hi Philip,

Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2017, 10:29:06 CEST schrieb Philip Prindeville:
> I’m working on Issue #4588 (ntpd needs UCI parsing comparable to sysntpd)
> and I had a question…
> 
> ntpd ships with the canned /etc/ntp.conf from the distro, but if we specify:
> 
> 
> config timeserver ntp
> 	list server ‘ntp.redfish-solutions.com’
> 
> 
> then the /etc/ntp.conf file needs to be rewritten as:
> 
> 
> driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
> 
> server 0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org iburst
> server 1.openwrt.pool.ntp.org iburst
> server 2.openwrt.pool.ntp.org iburst
> server 3.openwrt.pool.ntp.org iburst
> ...
> 
> 
> to:
> 
> 
> drift file /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
> 
> server ntp.redfish-solutions.com iburst
> ...
> 
> 
> instead.  Are there any good guidelines (or examples) on how to mangle
> config files in-place?
> 
> I’m guessing I’d need a sed script with a loop to gather all of the ‘server’
> lines and replace them with one.
> 
> Or am I missing something obvious?

I started working on this topic some weeks ago, too, but
did not yet completed it - if you are interested, I've pushed it here:
https://github.com/mhei/packages/tree/ntpd-uci

I used the 'include' statement to have a mostly static /etc/ntp.conf
and generate a dynamic file for inclusion in /tmp...

HTH,
Michael