[OpenWrt-Devel] [UCI] uci import -m duplicates list options

[Yousong Zhou]

On 13 April 2016 at 18:54, Nemesis <nemesis at ninux.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've incurred in weird behaviour when using the import feature of the uci
> tool which seems to cause duplicates when importing configuration files that
> have "list" settings.
>
> To test this you can try to create a file in /tmp/network:
>
> config interface 'lan'
>     list ipaddr '192.168.99.1/24'
>
> and then import it with:
>
> uci import -m -f /tmp/network network
> uci commit network
>
> then import it again:
>
> uci import -m -f /tmp/network network
> uci commit network
>
> results in:
>
> config interface 'lan'
>     list ipaddr '192.168.99.1/24'
>     list ipaddr '192.168.99.1/24'
>
> two questions:
>
> is this intended behaviour or is it a bug?
> can something like this break the configuration or OpenWRT will select just
> the last one?
>
> Thanks
> Federico

There is currently no rule against duplicate entries in list type
options and there may exist a situation where values in a list are not
unique to each other.  So I guess the result is expected.

Regards,

                yousong

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