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   1 [[!meta title="genericize all filesystem locations to enable test suite:" ]]
   2
   3 I'm in the process of writing a testsuite for the monkeysphere so that
   4 we can verify that it actually performs all the basic expected duties
   5 properly.
   6
   7 It occurs to me that lines like these:
   8
   9     ETC="/etc/monkeysphere"
  10     VARLIB="/var/lib/monkeysphere"
  11
  12 Actually make it very difficult to generically test the tool without
  13 it being installed system-wide.
  14
  15 Is there any reason that we should not allow these directories to be
  16 overridden with environment variables in the same way that
  17 `/usr/share/monkeysphere/share` is handled?
  18
  19     SHARE=${MONKEYSPHERE_SHARE:-"/usr/share/monkeysphere"}
  20
  21 I guess i'm proposing something like:
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  23     SYSCONFIGDIR=${MONKEYSPHERE_SYSCONFIGDIR:-"/etc/monkeysphere"}
  24     SYSDATADIR=${MONKEYSPHERE_SYSDATADIR:-"/var/lib/monkeysphere"}
  25
  26 Thoughts?
  27
  28 --dkg
  29
  30 ---
  31
  32 [[bugs/done]] on 2008-10-11