From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJFA1-00081q-By for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:53:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJF9y-0001iO-9M for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:53:05 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:51356) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJF9y-0001iK-5w for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:53:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eJF9x-0001VW-Th for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:53:01 -0500 Subject: [bug#29301] [PATCH] substitute* hard-coded paths with paths from "out" Resent-Message-ID: From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) References: <8760accpzl.fsf@gmail.com> <87shd4odvl.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:51:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Kristofer Buffington's message of "Sun, 26 Nov 2017 20:30:17 -0500") Message-ID: <87r2sknlxv.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Kristofer Buffington Cc: 29301@debbugs.gnu.org Hi, (Please always keep the bug Cc=E2=80=99d.) Kristofer Buffington skribis: > 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 path= s. > Perhaps I should send a patch upstream to eliminate the hard paths? Then > the substitute* would be unnecessary? --sysconfdir would not change the hard-coded file names, but it would actually make those hard-coded file names valid. And again, using /etc as the sysconfdir would allow people to have a writable artanis.conf file, for instance, so that=E2=80=99s definitely something we should do. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.