[hipl-dev] [Bug 693834] Re: maintain configuration files as separate files
- From: Miika Komu <693834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hipl-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:52:02 -0000
If you choose change the established practice (a trade off between
"purity" and "usability"), please remember to document this clearly to
the manual and note on the users mailing list as well. Three developers
(including me) have had troubles with the /usr/local/etc change even
though we knew about the change :)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/693834
Title:
maintain configuration files as separate files
Status in Host Identity Protocol for Linux:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The configuration files of hipd, hipfw and related HIPL programs are
currently maintained in-source at hipd/init.c.
Examples are:
- HIPL_CONFIG_FILE_EX
- HIPL_HOSTS_FILE_EX
- HIPL_NSUPDATE_CONF_FILE_EX
- hip_init_certs()
This is ugly and leads to the side-effect that hipd needs to be run for the
first time before hipfw can be started, as it needs to generate
firewall_config. Furthermore, as the configuration files are not explicitly
shipped in the distribution packages, they will not be removed on purge.
We need to maintain configuration in separate files, add them to configure.ac
and ensure that the configuration files can also be found in case of running
hipd from source without prior make install.
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