Flexible runtime config handling - #3017
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The runtime config file nested key=value settings
into lists like this [{key1=value1}, {key2=value2}].
This layout style is unnecessary complex and also
makes it hard to implement a straight forward merge
strategy for standard data types. This commit
refactors the layout to the necessary data structure.
So far the runtime config dicts after yaml.safe_load were merged together via python's dict.update() method. However, in kiwi the runtime config contains nested dictionaries and lists which always causes an overwrite and does not allow for add-on settings of the same configuration key. This commit adds a recursive merge strategy to make this more flexible. This is related to Issue #3014
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This refactor is two fold
Refactor runtime config layout style
The runtime config file nested key=value settings into lists like this
[{key1=value1}, {key2=value2}]. This layout style is unnecessary complex and also makes it hard to implement a straight forward merge strategy for standard data types. This commit refactors the layout to the necessary data structure.Refactor merge strategy for runtime config files
So far the runtime config dicts after yaml.safe_load were merged together via python's dict.update() method. However, in kiwi the runtime config contains nested dictionaries and lists which always causes an overwrite and does not allow for add-on settings of the same configuration key. This commit adds a recursive merge strategy to make this more flexible. This is related to Issue #3014