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From: Kristofer Buffington <kristoferbuffington@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [bug#29301] [PATCH] substitute* hard-coded paths with paths from "out"
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>


I will investigate. There are some hard coded paths in artanis/config.scm looking for the configuration file in /etc/artanis/artanis.conf -- I don't believe the --sysconfdir flag will have any impact on the hard-coded paths. Perhaps I should send a patch upstream to eliminate the hard paths? Then the substitute* would be unnecessary?

Thanks!
Kris

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
Hi Kristofer,

Kristofer Buffington <kristoferbuffington@gmail.com> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/guile.scm
> used substitute* to correct some hardcoded paths in the artanis package

[...]

> +                 (substitute* "artanis/config.scm"
> +                   (("/etc/artanis/artanis.conf")
> +                    (string-append out "/etc/artanis.conf"))
> +                   (("/etc/artanis/pages")
> +                    (string-append out "/etc/artanis")))
> +                 (substitute* "etc/artanis/artanis.conf"
> +                   (("/etc/artanis/pages")
> +                    (string-append out "/etc/artanis")))

Shouldn’t we instead configure it with --sysconfdir=/etc?  That would
allow users to provide custom configuration files, whereas currently
OUTPUT/etc/artanis contains immutable configuration files.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.