Wrong location for plugin-specific configuration?

Darren Salt pkg-vdr-dvb-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Mon, 09 Aug 2004 19:09:32 +0100


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

> * Darren Salt schrieb am 07.08.04, um 14:15 Uhr:
>>>>  * 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...

> Hmm, do you think that it is necessary to add some code for this in
> postinst?

I'd put it in; but since -4 didn't make it into sarge, it's probably not
really necessary. I suspect that anybody who's done so will soon notice some
small breakage :-)

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