[pkg-fso-maint] breakage ahead

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 09:35:02AM +0100, Heiko Stübner wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Am Dienstag 12 Januar 2010 schrieb Sebastian Reichel:
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:33:20PM +0100, Heiko Stübner wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I just uploaded libfsoframework 0.2.4+git20091229.
>> > This contains among other changes the split of the config files.
>> > When upgrading to this version one must put a fsousaged.conf into e.g.
>> > /etc/freesmartphone like the one attached.
>> >
>> > Heiko
>>
>> I think it should be shipped with fsousaged now, but I can also
>> update the fso config package if you prefer. I suggest the following
>> default settings:
>As this config (and all to follow) is in freerunner specific [specific openmoko
>plugins to load etc] I think I would prefer the fso-config package for now.
>
>In the future each daemon will have its own config file but with very device-
>specific settings. So I don't think it would make sense to provide a base config
>file for the user to customize for his phone.
>
>At the moment I'm thinking about something "alternatives"-based. fso-config-
>none (or -general or something) would provide the frameworkd.conf as
>alternative with the daemon configs as slave-files. fso-config-gta02 would
>provide the freerunner specific ones and when changing the frameworkd.conf
>alternative either via update-alternatives or postinst all configs would point
>to the gta02 ones (and back).

conf-files cannot use alternatives system. Using other methods is also 
tricky to do right - i.e. preserve user customizations etc.

The IMHO best - i.e. simplest and most reliable to maintain - is to ship 
with the software using it a plain configfile, tagged by the packaging 
mechanisms as a conffile.


Good luck, whatever you choose to do.

  - Jonas

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