Developers of Sympa

[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:34:12 +0200
Luc Didry <address@concealed> wrote:

> vendredi 5 avril 2019, 17:26:39 CEST Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> When you update packages in Debian and you have modified the conf file
> in /etc and you said you want to keep it, Debian put the new version
> of the conf file provided by the package in a file suffixed by
> .dpkg-new.
> 
> One of the first thing you do after installing Sympa is going to
> /etc/sympa to configure it. I think it makes sense to have the -dist
> file in the same directory: it's easier to notice it than if it’s in
> $DATADIR.
> 
> Anyway, that’s a point that can be discussed later. First thing first:
> creating the -dist file 🙂
> 
> > 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 wanted to keep it, indeed and let admins pick what they want in the
> sympa.conf-dist file.

I don't prefer to single *.conf-dist file.  At first looking, it
looks conprehensive.  However it seems a bit hard to maintain: Since
all possible parameters are listed, it gets more and more unclear
who edited which parameters.

Example may be seen on Postfix. In fact, when I build a mail
server, I at first replace bundled main.cf with output of
"postconf -n", then add only necessary parameters.

When inclusion feature (see GH issue #17) would be introduced,
sympa.conf might be split into multiple snippets.
Examples may be seen on dovecot, nginx and so on.  They may have
directories like /etc/dovecot/ to hold snippets.

Additionally, some distributions (e.g. Debian) have things like
/etc/nginx/site-available/ and /etc/nginx/site-enabled/ to
make maintenance easier.


Regards,
-- Soji

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