Hi,

In kolla-ansible, I am using the merge_configs module to merge service configs files. I want to merge api-paste.ini config with my custom changes, however while merging if a line consists of one colon, it is getting replaced with equal sign. merge_configs splits the line by considering colon as delimiter and treats two parts as key and value. Later which will be substituted as key = value.

Original
/v2.1: oscomputeversion_v2
Merged
/v2.1= oscomputeversion_v2  

Below, colon will be 1 and equal will be -1,

def _split_key_value(self, line):
        colon = line.find(':')
        equal = line.find('=')
        if colon < 0 and equal < 0:
            return self.error_invalid_assignment(line)

        if colon < 0 or (equal >= 0 and equal < colon):
            key, value = line[:equal], line[equal + 1:]
        else:
            key, value = line[:colon], line[colon + 1:]

        value = value.strip()
        if value and value[0] == value[-1] and value.startswith(("\"", "'")):
            value = value[1:-1]
        return key.strip(), [value]

I want to keep the config as it is and merge only my custom changes. Please let me know how to achieve this or colon can be escaped somehow.

Regards,
Sharath  
Regards,
Sharath