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Subject: | Re: msmtp 1.8.5 built using ${prefix}/${SYSCONFDIR} |
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From: | Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca> |
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Date: | Wed, 2 Oct 2019 13:38:13 -0600 |
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On 2019-10-02 12:18, Stephen Carrier wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 08:43:40PM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2019-10-01 18:47, Stephen Carrier wrote: >>> The latest verion of the msmtp package: 1.8.5+20190811+git7912c76-1 . >>> Differs from the previous version: 1.6.6-1 . >>> >>> In that the location of the system-wide configuration file is changed >>> from /etc/msmtprc to /usr/etc/msmtprc. >>> >>> I think this has the potential to break installations during an upgrade. >>> >>> In my case it only confused me as I set up a new system. >>> >>> Please consider changing this default back to what it was for the >>> convenience of those who will otherwise need to figure this out. >> >> Definitely not a standard location and nothing there currently on my system. >> The package contents shows only server configuration, nothing on /usr/etc/, no >> defaults provided in /etc/defaults/usr/etc/, and /usr/bin/msmtp-config defaults >> the CONFDIR to /etc, so unless you have a symlink, link or junction from /etc to >> /usr/etc, or changed the location during the server config, /etc/ should have >> been used. > > This is not what I meant. The package doesn't provide a configuration > file. msmtp-config generates one in /etc/msmtprc, exactly as I would > want and expect since that's where to find the configuration file for > previous versions. > > The problem is that the binary looks for its configuration file in a > different place: > $ msmtp --version > msmtp version 1.8.5 > Platform: x86_64-pc-cygwin > .... > System configuration file name: /usr/etc/msmtprc > and only after I moved the configuration file to that nonstandard location > would msmtp start working instead of complaining that it couldn't find > any configuration file. > > This seems like something that could be fixed by tweaking the package > build scripts; I think it would be great to do that. So this is a discrepancy between the built exe and the config script, which should be resolved by having the built exe use the standard SYSCONFDIR, by removing ${prefix} from its definition. [changing subject] -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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