[Pkg-puppet-devel] should config.ru be a conffile?

[Mathias Gug]

Hi Nigel,

Excerpts from Nigel Kersten's message of Tue Sep 14 12:13:49 -0400 2010:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> >> It looks like code, but it isn't really much of that. You generally
> >> just set config options there and then start the relevant application.
> >>  It used to be a lot of code with 0.24.x, but not really in 0.25
> >>
> >> I think your suggestion is feasible, but I personally think it
> >> diverges us too much from upstream for too little gain, and the
> >> interaction between options in the config file, config.ru and command
> >> line have had too many edge cases upstream for me to feel really
> >> confident.
> >
> > Fair enough. It seems that moving config.ru to
> > /etc/puppet/rack/config.ru is a wise choice then.
> 
> 
> Do we want to try and fix this situation for 2.6.1 now that it's been
> released? Or should we not do that during a point release?
> 
> If we're ok with doing it, I'll get the work done today.

How about targeting experimental (and put the work in the master branch)
for now? 

If it turns out to be simple it could be backported to the squeeze
branch.

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Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer  http://www.ubuntu.com