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Today's Topics:
1. New innreport-display.conf file (Julien ?LIE)
2. About external or technical configuration files (Julien ?LIE)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 12:20:13 +0200
From: Julien ?LIE <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: New innreport-display.conf file
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi all,
Following a previous discussion, I've just separated innreport.conf into 2
files.
Special care is needed to handle that change if you made local modifications to
the display. This is mentioned in the upgrade instructions for INN 2.7:
* The innreport.conf file in pathetc has been split into a general
configuration file (innreport.conf itself) and a display configuration
file (innreport-display.conf in *pathlib*). If you made local changes
in sections other than the *default* section in innreport.conf, and
wish to keep them, then you need renaming the new
innreport-display.conf file to a another name in *pathlib*, setting
this local file name in the new *display_conf_file* option in
innreport.conf, and re-applying your local changes to that local
display configuration file.
As a matter of fact, the default display configuration file would
otherwise be overwritten each time INN is updated. Bug fixes or
enhancements are made from time to time to the display configuration
of innreport, and couldn't be automatically be merged in
innreport.conf on update. This new separate configuration file to
parameter the display will now permit an automatic update (if of
course you use the default display configuration file).
This is one of the latest "disruptive" change for the end user I've had in mind
for INN 2.7.0 (switching to Automake can be handled transparently for the end
user in a minor release in the 2.7.x series).
Does anyone here have any other wish for INN 2.7.0 that need special upgrade
instructions?
--
Julien ?LIE
??Tant qu'il y a des marmites, il y a de l'espoir?!?? (Ast?rix)
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 12:41:10 +0200
From: Julien ?LIE <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: About external or technical configuration files
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi all,
Do you think something should be done for the following configuration
files in <pathetc>, that are not automatically updated with a new INN
version?
- control.ctl
- innwatch.ctl
- moderators
- nocem.ctl
Currently, a news admin needs taking care manually of possible changes.
I doubt people really modify innwatch.ctl... It may be a file to move
into <pathlib> so that bug fixes are automatically taken into account
during an update.
We could have the following behaviour: use <pathetc>/innwatch.ctl.local
if present. Otherwise, use <pathlib>/innwatch.ctl.
Any opinion about that?
Changes to control.ctl and nocem.ctl are not always straight-forward, as
a manual intervention in PGP keys could be needed. So I would be
inclined not to change anything, unless someone has an interesting idea.
Besides, changes to these "external" files can happen at any time, and
are not linked to an INN release. Same thing for the moderators file.
Maybe a simple tool that the admin could manually start, or put in cron,
that just download the reference file (from ftp.isc.org or the GitHub
INN repository for instance) and output the diff between the local
installed file could be useful and be an improvement?
Incidentally, this tool may also download/compare the installed version
of other common packages like Cleanfeed, PyClean or like.
--
Julien ?LIE
??Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is
someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.??
(Oprah Winfrey)
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