How will you avoid overwriting user config if you write to /etc?  You'll
need some sort of alternate extension, such as qdrouterd.conf.new.

Separately, why is this on the dev list? /me grumbles about the qpid list
situation.


On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Andrew Stitcher <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 18:11 -0500, Alan Conway wrote:
> > I'd like to improve the dispatch out-of-box experience and doc
> > regarding SASL. Our present experience is Doesn't Work By Default/No
> > Useful Errors/Nothing In Doc (apologies if I'm just being dim)
> >
> > My use case is:
> > - install dispatch (using make install to /usr/local)
> > - start qdrouterd with no arguments, using installed default config
> > - run 'qdstat -g' to see something happen.
> >
> > The installer installs:
> >
> >    /usr/local/etc/sasl2/qdrouterd.conf
>
> That would be a mistake! The installed code will look by default
> wherever the default for cyrus-sasl is - almost certainly /etc/sasl2 in
> your case.
>
> This is one of those cases where you can't sensibly restrict the new
> installed config file to the install prefix for what's being installed.
> Simply because it relies on something external with it's own
> installation in a potentially different place.
>
> Andrew
>
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