Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] linuxcoe.rc file precedence

[Bruno C. <Bru...@hp...>]

Mayes, Lee said on Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 05:54:36PM -0500:

> It's not possible with the current code, but you can override this by pointing the variable $deffile in lib/LinuxCOE.pm to any absolute path (that's the first place it looks, which is current /opt/SystemDesigner/4).  It's kind of a chicken-egg problem, I'll think on it some.  Needless to say, a roll of LinuxCOE.pm would point it back to default, but at least your file wouldn't get overwritten.  Perhaps we should stop shipping linuxcoe.rc and rename it to linuxcoe.rc.example or something?

1/ That's where packaging is also helping as it saves the old config
file 
2/ For mondo I have resolved to provide a fixed config file named
/etc/mindi/mindi.conf.dist (in case of pkg, /usr/local/etc otherwise)
and reads a potentially empty /etc/mindi/mindi.conf in addition which
can overrides the values by new ones.

I even md5sum /etc/mindi/mindi.conf.dist to check it didn't changed sinc
install, so that I'm sure that I have the minimum set of functions
required. Sorry this is shell code, so not sharable like that for a perl
based project, but the idea should be reusable in itself.

Bruno.
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