Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Hi Jerome,

Jérôme Marant wrote:

>   When I installed the first version of my new debian package, I discovered
>   that Sympa was seeking for robot configuration in --DIR--/etc, which is
>   on my system /usr/lib/sympa/etc.
>   However, I think that this should go along with sympa.conf and 
> wwsympa.conf,
>   which are for me in /etc/sympa. But I cannot do this currently (same thing
>   for task models).
>   I seems that wwsympa is seeking for robot configuration in $Conf{'etc'}.

We have defined 2 'etc' directories in Sympa :
        * --CONFDIR-- is the directory to look for MAIN configuration files
          (ie sympa.conf and wwsympa.conf). These files are Sympa's 
"bootstrap"
          therefore this path is set in binaries/scripts at make time.
        * Conf{'etc'} is the other configuration directory containing :
                - Virtual robots definition     
                - Site's scenarios
                -  // 's templates
                -  // 's list templates
                -  edit_list.conf, auth.conf,...
          This can be defined in sympa.conf.

> [...]
>   So, I do propose the following:
> 
>   - 'etc'     => '--CONFDIR--',

No, it does not make sense to modify it in sympa.conf because it is 
sympa.conf's
directory and it is hard-coded (at make time) in scripts/binaries.

>   - replacing every "--DIR--/etc" with $Conf{'etc'}

You're right, we'll fix this.

We'd like to keep on differenciate these 2 directories.
If you want to refer to the same directory :
        1/ you set it in the distributed sympa.conf
           (requires that we change every "--DIR--/etc" with $Conf{'etc'} 
first)

        2/ we define a new var in configure.in, but I can't find one that 
suites
           in autoconf's documentation (we already use 'sysconfdir')

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités