Jared Smith wrote:
Would it be possible to make it so that we can override the settings
from publican.cfg?
In the older versions of Publican which were build on make files, it was
easy to do things such as:
CONDITION=red-pill make pdf-en-US
CONDITION=blue-pill make pdf-en-US
Now that Publican no longer uses make files, it's difficult to easily
override the settings in publican.cfg. The two options I've though of
are:
1) allow environment variables to override the settings in publican.cfg
or
2) Allow Publican to look for another configuration file via another
command-line switch, such as publican --config foo.cfg build
--formats=html-single --langs=en-US
Thoughts? Ideas?
Number 2, publican --config foo.cfg, was already supposed to work,
however there was a bug in the way the argument was specified was it was
treating it as a switch instead of a string. Also it was missing from
the help text.
I checked in a fix.
$ publican --help
Usage:
publican <global options>
publican <action> <options>
Global Options
--help Display help message
--man Display the man page
--help_actions Display a list of valid actions
-v Display the version of Publican
--config <file> Use a nonstandard config file
Run: 'publican <action> --help' for details on action usage
...
$ publican build --langs en-US --formats html --config=foo.cfg
Setting up en-US
...
FYI If you wish to apply this change locally without rebuilding
publican, it's a small change:
$ svn diff -r1015 bin/publican
Index: bin/publican
===================================================================
--- bin/publican (revision 1015)
+++ bin/publican (working copy)
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
--man Display the man page
--help_actions Display a list of valid actions
-v Display the version of Publican
+ --config <file> Use a nonstandard config file
Run: 'publican <action> --help' for details on action usage
@@ -124,7 +125,7 @@
# Options all actions use
my @utility_opts = (
'help', 'help_actions',
- 'man', 'config',
+ 'man', 'config=s',
'common_config=s', 'common_content=s',
'v',
);
Cheers, Jeff.
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Jeff Fearn <[email protected]>
Software Engineer
Engineering Operations
Red Hat, Inc
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