Control: clone 909561 -1 Control: retitle -1 simple-cdd: support variables in configuration files Control: tags 909561 pending
On 2019-05-29, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2018-09-25, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: >> I'm putting this as important because it's a regression compared to >> before the python rewrite and because the sample configuration files shipped >> in the package make you believe that you can rely on this variable. >> >> I'm referring to those lines for example in >> /usr/share/doc/simple-cdd/examples/simple-cdd.conf.detailed.gz: >> >> #debian_cd_dir=$simple_cdd_dir/debian-cd >> #simple_cdd_temp="$simple_cdd_dir/tmp/" >> # export SPLASHPNG="$simple_cdd_dir/yourimage.png" >> #hd_img="$simple_cdd_dir/qemu-test.hd.img" >> >> I just checked by putting "env >/tmp/foo" in the configuration file that I >> passed to the --conf parameter and I confirm that "simple_cdd_dir" is not >> set in the environment. > >> You can decide to set it or not, I don't really care but it should be either >> documented and supported, or unsupported and with no misleading references >> to it in the configuration file. I've added a commit upstream which removes references to variables in the example configuration files and profiles, since the fix may take longer. > I think this extends to setting any variables within variables any of > simple-cdd's configuration files. > > I definitely consider it a bug. Cloning this bug to track fixing the actual issue. live well, vagrant
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