Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 15:00:37 -0500 on Thursday, September 3,
2009:
> On 09/03 08:45 , Davide Brini wrote:
> > I agree that it should work like that. However, if I'm not mistaken, it
> > seems
> > that what's written here still applies:
> >
> > http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2003-10/msg00010.html
>
> I think the current behavior is the correct behavior -- where the per-host
> config file variable data completely replaces the defaults set in the
> config.pl.
>
> The reason is that there are some settings in config.pl where is it not
> sensible to add the value in config.pl to the value in the per-host file;
> such as the rsync command.
>
> It would be bad from a discoverability standpoint to have some variables be
> additive, and others ablative. They should all behave the same way; and the
> only sensible way IMHO is current behavior.
>
> Please correct me if I misunderstand your statement and intent.
Perhaps I misunderstand by why couldn't the config.pl be read in
and evaluated first followed by reading in the appropriate
pc/hostname.pl file if it exist.
Then:
1. Any statement in subsequent pc/hostname.pl files of form
$Conf{xxxxx} = "yyyy";
would clearly overwrite earlier settings.
2. Any missing $Conf variable in the pc/hostname.pl file would inherit
from the config.pl file.
3. And something of form:
push(@{$Conf{xxxxx}}, "zzzz");
would append to the value set in the main config.pl file
The only issue is that for some variables form #3 might not make sense
but then don't use form #3 or use another snippet of Perl code to
properly make your edit.
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