Hello, Its been a while since I looked at openca last, and I was looking at updating my Debian package.
However, I notice that OpenCA still has the braindead assumption that configure will be called once for every installation. Under Debian this assumption is totally braindead, because the same package will be used on all systems. It is not possible for individual users to rerun configure, because that step has already been done by the package maintainer. Using configure is OK to configure stuff like Unix UIDs, directories, etc. It is NOT OK to setup things like web host name, organisation name, country, hierarchy-level, etc. A possible solution, the *.in files need to be distributed with the package (eg. in /usr/share/openca), and a script needs to be written that will only configuration *after* everything else is installed (eg. process the files in /usr/share/openca, process with sed, and produce the files under /etc/openca). Obviously configuration would only be for the first time, subsequent times would overwrite the initial configuration (please correct me if this isn't already a problem anyway). Even better, if this script created a configuration file that could be used on all systems used by one organisation. Previously I have done something for my Debian package, but it would be much better[1] if a solution could be maintained by you OpenCA people. Comments? Notes: [1] My current Debian solution is very messy, because it has to search for all these automatically generated configuration files and delete them, manually replacing them with the *.in files instead. It also makes it a pain to keep uptodate when the directory layout changes. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _______________________________________________ OpenCA-Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openca-devel
