Re: [Bayonne-devel] Re: grep dlgnDriver = dialogic or globalcall?

[David Sugar]

The BAYONNE_xxx symbols can be set in the environment directly before 
launching Bayonne, while /etc/sysconfig/bayonne sets a local symbol set.  So 
the two were kept different because they were intended to be distinct...

On Saturday 19 July 2003 10:02 am, Erik Enge wrote:
> David Sugar <address@hidden> writes:
> > At the moment, /etc/sysconfig/bayonne is the preferred way to specify
> > a driver, with the init script's autodetect used as a default to
> > automate driver selection.
>
> I guess you are referring to the following code in sbin/bayonne (the
> test for /etc/sysconfig/bayonne appears several times in the file so my
> comments would apply to all of them):
>
>         if test -f /etc/sysconfig/bayonne ; then
>                 . /etc/sysconfig/bayonne
>                 if test ! -z "$CONFIG" ; then
>                         sysconfig="$CONFIG"
>                 fi
>         fi
>         if test ! -z "$BAYONNE_CONFIG" ; then
>                 sysconfig="$BAYONNE_CONFIG"
>         fi
>
> At the top of that script we have:
>
>         sysconfig="/share/sys/bayonne/bayonne-1.2.6-1/etc"
>
> Perhaps we could do something like this instead:
>
>         if test -f $sysconfig/bayonne
>                 . $sysconfig/bayonne
>         fi
>
> And then set $sysconfig to be /etc/sysconfig by default during the
> compile process unless --sysconfdir is specified?
>
> I also do not understand the semantics of the two other if-tests for
> $CONFIG and $BAYONNE_CONFIG.  Why are they here?  Do we really need
> both?  How would they get used?
>
> My issue with the current way is that it does not scale at all for us.
> We have multiple Bayonne installations because of the testing routines
> we have to go through before we deploy (we do this religiously with all
> software) and we need to be able to have them use individual
> configuration files.
>
> Now, I know that I can export environment variables and have them
> overwrite whatever, if any, /etc/sysconfig/bayonne sets for me but that
> seems like a hack and there doesn't seem to be a preferred way of doing
> it.
>
> Erik.
>
>
>
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