augeas | Source repo for CentOS Stream package

augeas is a C library. augeas has no bugs, it has a Weak Copyleft License and it has low support. However augeas has 5 vulnerabilities. You can download it from GitLab.

Augeas is a library and command line tool that focuses on the most basic problem in handling Linux configurations programmatically: editing actual configuration files in a controlled manner. To that end, Augeas exposes a tree of all configuration settings (well, all the ones it knows about) and a simple local API for manipulating the tree. Augeas then modifies underlying configuration files according to the changes that have been made to the tree; it does as little modeling of configurations as possible, and focuses exclusivley on transforming the tree-oriented syntax of its public API to the myriad syntaxes of individual configuration files. This focus on editing sets Augeas apart from any other configuration tool I know of. Hopefully, Augeas will form a more solid foundation on which these tools can be built; with a clean, simple API these tools should be able to focus more on their core concerns and less on the mechanics of running sed, grep, awk, etc. to tweak a config file. If all you need is a tool to edit configuration files, you only need to concern yourself with the handful of public API calls that Augeas exposes (or their equivalent language bindings). However, to teach Augeas about a new file format, you need to describe that file format in Augeas's domain specific language (a very small subset of ML) Documentation for that language can be found on the Augeas website at If you do that, please contribute the description if at all possible, or include it in the distribution of your software - all you need to do for that is add a couple of text files, there is no need to change existing code. Ultimately, Augeas should describe all config files commonly found on a Linux system.