From d4b948504ceb829d65274205733425e2770e0df7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Achim Gsell <achim.gsell@psi.ch>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:20:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: remove comments while reading YAML files

---
 CHANGELOG.md                 | 2 ++
 Pmodules/libpmodules.bash.in | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6fa20f0..557012f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 * Bugfix: un-using an overlay didn't remove the directories of the overlay
   in all cases.
   (#1387)
+* Bugfix: remove comments while reading YAML config files
+  (#1380)
 * Bugfix: Under some conditions it could happen, that the variable
   GroupDepths($group) was undefined in the function get\_load\_hints().
   (#1368, #1384)
diff --git a/Pmodules/libpmodules.bash.in b/Pmodules/libpmodules.bash.in
index 5ab0993..bc93c43 100644
--- a/Pmodules/libpmodules.bash.in
+++ b/Pmodules/libpmodules.bash.in
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ yml::read_file(){
 	local -- yml_fname="$2"
 	local -- yml_node="$3"
 
-	yml_content=$( ${yq} -Ne e "${yml_node}|explode(.)" "${yml_fname}" 2>/dev/null ) || \
+	yml_content=$( ${yq} -Ne e "... comments=\"\"|${yml_node}|explode(.)" "${yml_fname}" 2>/dev/null ) || \
 		yml::die_read_file "${yml_fname}"
 }