charm build - transpose configs

[James Beedy]

Thanks, Seuart. Here's the bug ->
https://github.com/juju/charm-tools/issues/240

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:11 AM, Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop at canonical.com>
wrote:

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> On 1 August 2016 at 01:16, James Beedy <jamesbeedy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Team,
>>
>> I'm having a few issues I could use some insight on.....
>>
>> 1. Config default values defined in my layer's config.yaml
>> <https://github.com/jamesbeedy/layer-gitlab/blob/master/config.yaml> don't
>> seem to be making it into the built charm.
>>     * The config values are defined to provide default values to the
>> subordinate layer-apt config params.
>>     * The config definitions seem to make it into my built charm's
>> config.yaml <http://paste.ubuntu.com/21659447/>, just not the specified
>> default values from layer-gitlab config.yaml
>> <https://github.com/jamesbeedy/layer-gitlab/blob/master/config.yaml>. <-
>> This is strikingly odd, because when I include another layer, say
>> juju-layer-node <https://github.com/battlemidget/juju-layer-node>,
>> following which build my top layer into a charm, I get the default configs
>> for layer-apt, defined by layer-node in my built charm. This is different
>> than what happens when I build my charm-gitlab
>> <https://github.com/jamesbeedy/charm-gitlab>, which includes layer-gitlab
>> <https://github.com/jamesbeedy/layer-gitlab>, which has the default
>> values specified to satisfy the params for the layer-apt.
>>
>> Where am I going wrong here?
>>
>
> You're doing it right. Looks like charm-build isn't merging config.yaml
> the way that is needed. I think an issue on
> https://github.com/juju/charm-tools is in order.
>
>
>
>> 2. How are the merging configs into a built charm handled when multiple
>> layers included by the built charm include the same layer, and define
>> default config params for that layer?
>>
>
> Should be like any other merge, with the higher layers overriding the
> lower layers in a reasonably standard multiple-inheritance style way. I'm
> not sure how it could work at all otherwise.
>
>
>
> --
> Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop at canonical.com>
>
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