Bug#264071: Wrong location for plugin-specific configuration?

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Thomas Schmidt may or may not have written...

> * Darren Salt schrieb am 06.08.04, um 23:26 Uhr:
>>  * Tried "xine -r" in /etc/vdr/plugins/order.conf; this was the obvious
>>    thing to do. No such luck; the parameter wasn't echoed in $PLUGINS.

> Hmm, i guess i will add a comment about plugin-options in
> /etc/vdr/plugins/order.conf.

That'll probably be enough.

>>  * Used strace to find out what was being accessed, and was surprised to
>>    find mention of /var/lib/vdr/plugins/plugin.xine.conf.

> It seems that we missed this as we changed the path of the cfg-files to be
> FHS-compliant. Changing the $PLUGIN_CFG_DIR in vdr.default should fix this
> also and is a little bit more simple as the postinst-version. :)

This is true. OTOH, it's possible that people have already put files in
/var/lib/vdr/plugins...

>> The vdr-dvb-devel mailing list is mostly German. I don't know German...
>> :-|

> We already discussed on the list, if it would be better to write in
> English, and there were no objections.

This is good. (Subscribing.)

> (The main reason for this discussion was that i saw your posts about
> Debian-packages on vdr@linuxtv.org, and we intended to ask you i you would
> like to help us with the project on alioth.) ;-)

Wouldn't mind :-)

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