Re: [RCD] config file location

-- Michael Baierl http://mbaierl.com/ Am 11.07.2008 um 20:59 schrieb Amitai Schlair schmonz@schmonz.com: > Hello! > > RoundCube places its config files within its directory hierarchy. This > is a fine default, but for packages it's important to be able to > override the default. Why? Many sysadmins (and packagers, and package > systems) expect all binaries and data installed under the root of the > package tree to be read-only once they've been installed; think NFS > sharing, or package tools throwing warnings on delete/update when > files don't match the checksums recorded when they were installed. > > Config files aren't read-only, and therefore it's important to be able > to place them elsewhere if desired (/etc, for instance.) I've patched > roundcubemail-0.1.1-dep's main.inc:rcmail_load_config() to inspect the > environment and prefix $RCMAIL_CONFIG_DIR if set, rather than > "config", when reading the config files. The default behavior remains > unchanged, of course! > > http://netbsd.schmonz.com/patches/roundcube-config-dir.diff > > To take advantage of the patch, I added "SetEnv RCMAIL_CONFIG_DIR / > etc/ > roundcube" to the RoundCube section of my Apache config, and placed > {db,main}.inc.php in /etc/roundcube where I like them. :-) > > Sorry this is against an old version, but there's nothing at all > clever about the changes so they should be straightforward to bring up > to date. The installer would need similar help as well. > > - Amitai > _______________________________________________ > List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/ _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/