New innreport-display.conf file

Julien ÉLIE julien at trigofacile.com
Sat Apr 16 10:20:13 UTC 2022


Hi all,

Following a previous discussion, I've just separated innreport.conf into 2 files.
Special care is needed to handle that change if you made local modifications to the display.  This is mentioned in the upgrade instructions for INN 2.7:

     * The innreport.conf file in pathetc has been split into a general
       configuration file (innreport.conf itself) and a display configuration
       file (innreport-display.conf in *pathlib*).  If you made local changes
       in sections other than the *default* section in innreport.conf, and
       wish to keep them, then you need renaming the new
       innreport-display.conf file to a another name in *pathlib*, setting
       this local file name in the new *display_conf_file* option in
       innreport.conf, and re-applying your local changes to that local
       display configuration file.

       As a matter of fact, the default display configuration file would
       otherwise be overwritten each time INN is updated.  Bug fixes or
       enhancements are made from time to time to the display configuration
       of innreport, and couldn't be automatically be merged in
       innreport.conf on update.  This new separate configuration file to
       parameter the display will now permit an automatic update (if of
       course you use the default display configuration file).



This is one of the latest "disruptive" change for the end user I've had in mind for INN 2.7.0 (switching to Automake can be handled transparently for the end user in a minor release in the 2.7.x series).


Does anyone here have any other wish for INN 2.7.0 that need special upgrade instructions?

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

« Tant qu'il y a des marmites, il y a de l'espoir ! » (Astérix)


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