[Pkg-exim4-users] order of file concatenation

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:00:34PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 19:35 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 10:21:30AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > I started with
> > > 30_exim4-config_remote_smtp
> > > 30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost
> > > 
> > > And wanted to add a bit after the remote_smtp transport.  So I created
> > > 30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_rb
> > > but this ended up *after* the smarthost stuff.
> > 
> > Actually, the idea behind the filename is order_source_name, with
> > source being "exim4-config" for files installed from exim4-config.
> > That way, one can easily say where a file comes from.
> > 
> > So, you should probably be naming your files like order_local_name. In
> > any case, I would choose the order number in a way that this forces
> > the sort order of files. Since transport order doesn't matter, all our
> > files are at order 30.
>
> So, make no assumptions about the relative ordering between files that
> have the same order number?

No. As Andreas said, the order is defined by ls and its configuration.

> This does mean that the trick I was trying to do of modifying an
> existing transport can't be done reliably,

Why? The order of transports in the config file doesn't matter.

Greetings
Marc

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