[Request] crudini

[LukeShortCloud]

Package:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/crudini

Depends:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-iniparse-git

Purpose:

crudini is useful for administrators and automation tools for interacting with INI files such as /etc/pacman.conf, /etc/default/grub, ~/.config/legendary.ini, etc. As the name implies, it can create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) entries in INI files.

Example usage:

$ sudo crudini --ini-options=nospace --set /etc/default/grub "" GRUB_TIMEOUT 10
$ crudini --get /etc/default/grub "" GRUB_TIMEOUT
10

Benefits:

There are two packages on the AUR that provide this: crudini and python-crudini.

The original is crudini. python-crudini was temporarily created because crudini did not update when a new release came out. It was understandable because crudini did not get a new tagged release for 2-3 years despite active development. Now that the crudini project is freqeuntly getting tagged releases again, the crudini AUR package has been staying up-to-date and the python-crudini package has seemingly been abandoned.

Building:

makepkg -s -i python-iniparse is required first before building crudini.

Copyright:

GPL2

Expected Interest:

Many

Already available?

No

Unique request?

Yes

Banned package?

No

More information:

Fedora ships this package in their main repository.

[xiota]

python-iniparse has check failures. Appears to be upstream issue.