Developers of Sympa

[Xavier Bachelot <address@concealed>]

Hi Luc,

Le 05/04/2019 à 14:05, Luc Didry a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Sympa has a lot of options to put in sympa.conf. Unfortunately,
> sympa.conf isn’t updated on upgrades, which can make the sysadmin not
> noticing new options.
>
> One simple solution is to provide a /etc/sympa/sympa.conf-dist,
> providing all the available options with their default values for
> sysadmins to pick the options they want. I think the current minimal
> sympa.conf is a good thing though: I think it’s better to have a
> minimal and understandable conf file rather an overwhelming conf file
> like the one we used to have.
>
> What do you think of that? And how to do that?
This looks like an interesting idea.
And this is more or less what is being done for the various web and mail 
templates.
About the file location, I wouldn't "pollute" /etc with the 
sympa.conf-dist file. This is not a configuration file and should not be 
confused with one. I would rather use $DATADIR, the same place as the 
other default files.
Iirc, there are a couple settings that are mandatory to be set by the 
admin (domain, listmaster and possibly others), so a minimal sympa.conf 
would still be needed.

> I was thinking that I could create a script with the code used by
> `sympa_wizard.pl --create` that would generate it, then the script
> would be run from `make install` and the file would be installed after
> the generation, but would it be the good way to do it?
>
> [1] https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/508

Regards,
Xavier