[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 12:17:50 -0000

Or maybe a -d as in configuration directory.

What happens if no configuration is not found? For example, if I just
download the sources and start hipd in the source tree?

(In an ideal situation, the boot strapping procedure is completely zero-
conf)

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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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