[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk-GUI 0013591]: asterisk-gui erases comments and other user edits in conf files

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13591 
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Reported By:                dkerr
Assigned To:                bkruse
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Project:                    Asterisk-GUI
Issue ID:                   13591
Category:                   General
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
Asterisk Version:           1.4.21.2 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases):  trunk 
SVN Revision (number only!): 3804 
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2008-09-30 13:11 CDT
Last Modified:              2008-09-30 14:09 CDT
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Summary:                    asterisk-gui erases comments and other user edits in
conf files
Description: 
This is related to http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13530  but I couldn't
see how to raise the severity from minor to major.

With further use of the GUI I find that there are several things the GUI
does that are severe problems.

1) Any comments (lines beginning with #) are erased. If I comment out a
line in a conf file, then later come back to try and un-comment it (say
because I am testing different configurations) then I find that the line
has been erased! If I wanted to delete the line I would have done that!

2) I added a line to queues.conf (context=xxxx) because there was no way
to add a context in the Queue GUI. If I modify this queue in anyway in the
GUI, then the context= line is erased.

The GUI should NOT erase user edits for fields it knows nothing about.
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 (0092973) bkruse (manager) - 2008-09-30 14:09
 http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13591#c92973 
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Thanks for trying to contribute, but comments are in the form of a
semicolon ';', you can add these in contexts where you are not changing
things in that context (for example the top of the file).

Either use the GUI, or use the config files, trying to mix and match will
break the GUI as it cannot understand everything you do.

-bk 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2008-09-30 14:09 bkruse         Note Added: 0092973                          
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