Elektra  0.9.1
Relative

There is a different behavior of various plugins whether their name is absolute or relative, including:

  1. mounting the same file somewhere else does not work
  2. importing somewhere else (other than from where it was exported) does not work (See here)
  • at least the dump plugin must be able to handle its old files
  • it still will be easy to support a workflow that exports/imports everything
  • mounting across namespaces (user/system) does not make sense
  • allow relative/absolute plugins and mark them what they are, tools (e.g. import/export) use this knowledge and react accordingly. This would still not solve issue 1.)

Key names shall be relative to parent Key name

Provides a better import/export/remount and also a more uniform experience between different plugins.

Plugins must be adapted to be relative as tracked here.

plugins should use relative paths so that import/export/remount works

  • dump
  • xmltool (also supports relative)
  • tcl

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