[Box Backup] Distribution Patches - Debian - Part2: adjust basedir

David H Kaufman boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:16:07 -0400


Hi Chris,

Maintaining this patch is the largest part of the effort involved in the
Gentoo packaging. It would be great to have the default change.

Thanks
David

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:05:33 +0200 (CEST), Chris Wilson <chris@qwirx.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 
>> Adjust the config basedir from /etc/box to /etc/boxbackup for the debian

>> package.
>>
>> I'm actually not sure if this patch is acceptable upstream. However I've

>> noticed that gentoo carries a very similar patch for this change. Maybe 
>> this s/box/boxbackup/ should be made configurable?
> 
> I think this is a good idea. Does anyone have any objections to me 
> changing the default path? if I hear nothing, I'll assume it's OK to 
> change from /etc/box to /etc/boxbackup.
> 
> You can always override this by providing a path to a specified 
> configuration file on the command line of any of the tools and daemons.
> 
> Cheers, Chris.
>