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Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Monday 11 September 2006 03:44, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> What is the best way to propagate information about these two |
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>> variable types? For example, we can have a list of variable names |
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>> stored in a new variable called "COLON_SEPARATED" that will reside |
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>> in either the profiles or /etc/env.d/ itself. Variable names not |
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>> listed in COLON_SEPARATED can be assumed to be space separated. |
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>> Does anyone have any ideas to share about how this information |
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>> should be propagated? |
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> There should also be a third list (or the absense of inclusion in the above). |
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> That is those variables that can only have one value and are overridden |
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> instead of appended. |
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I think it will be sufficient to have COLON_SEPARATED and |
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SPACE_SEPARATED lists, with all other variables assumed to be |
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overridden instead of appended. |
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To sumarize what I've said in my other replies, COLON_SEPARATED and |
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SPACE_SEPARATED will be stored in /etc/env.d/ itself. The |
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env-update tool (or whatever tool will process /etc/env.d/) will be |
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hard coded to consider COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED as being |
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implicitly within the SPACE_SEPARATED class. The tool will make one |
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pass to accumulate those two variables, and then another pass to |
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process the rest of the variables. The COLON_SEPARATED and |
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SPACE_SEPARATED variables will automatically be initialized with the |
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old hard coded values. Moving forward, packages that install files |
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in /etc/env.d/ should include COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED |
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definitions as necessary for the other variables that they define. |
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Zac |
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