[Scrollkeeper-devel] RFE

[Jens E. <el...@im...>]

Hi,

is it possible to improve scrollkeeper for "shared environments" ?

Actually the only thing one seems to be able to configure after scrollkeeper
is installed, is the OFA_DIR.

What is IMHO required in a shared environment (i.e. the installdir of
scrollkeeper is shared with client machines)? :

Basically a global and an optional additional local configuration. 

Why:
0) clients should be able to make use of a (e.g. NFS) shared scrollkeeper
   base (e.g. $serverdir/scrollkeeper) and thus need read access to
   $serverdir/scrollkeeper
1) Usually clients are not allowed to overwrite files shared from a 
   server (e.g.  $serverdir/scrollkeeper/var/log/scrollkeeper.log)
2) clients should be able, to have additional scrollkeeper dbs since they
   might have additional (e.g. client specific) software installed.

So I would opt for the following roughly behavior:

0) scrollkeeper should allow the following options in its conf file:
	a) LOCAL_CONF=$file	(e.g. $file = /etc/opt/scrollkeeper.conf)
	b) DB_DIR=$db_dir	(e.g. $db_dir = /var/data/scrollkeeper)
	c) LOG_FILE=$log	(e.g. $log = /var/log/scrollkeeper.log)
	d) DOCBOOK=$docbook.uri	(e.g. $docbook.uri = /opt/docbook/docbook.dtd)

1) for runtime configuration scrollkeeper should scan and merge/overwrite
   the settings of:
	a) $installdir/etc/scrollkeeper.conf (hard coded when compiled)
	b) $SCROOLKEEPER_DIR/etc/scrollkeeper.conf if this env var is set
	c) $LOCAL_CONF if this option is set

2) if a LOG_FILE option is set, it overwrites the previous setting

3) if DB_DIR is found, scrollkeeper should merge it into its current
   DB_DIR settings and should take information from that directory[s]
   into account as well

4) if OMF_DIR is set, it should be merged into the current OMF_DIR
   setting, too.

5) if DOCBOOK is set, scrollkeeper should try to use this dtd instead
   of the one, [not] specified in the default catalog file.

What do you think, is this possible to make scrollkeeper such flexible ?

regards,
jens.
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