[vdr] Re: VDR config files in /etc/vdr?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

"Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M" wrote:
> 
> > Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm in the process of finalizing VDR for the big release
> > 1.0.0 and was
> > > wondering if it would be a good idea to have the config
> > files in /etc/vdr
> > > by default.
> > >
> > > The thing to consider here is that some of these files are
> > written to while
> > > VDR is running, so this may not be something one wants to
> > have in /etc.
> > >
> > > Any opinions on this?
> >
> > Well, it came as I was afraid it would...
> > This is probably one of those questions where you ask ten people and
> > you get at least eleven different opinions ;-)
> >
> > So I guess I'll leave everything as it is, since this has been working
> > for quite a while now, and with the '-v' and '-c' options
> > everybody can
> > set up things the way they want.
> 
> I was thinking about this problem some time ago. Actually, having the '-c' option is sufficient for me. But that is, I admid, my personal opinion.
> What I dislike ATM is, that there is no distinction between static data
> (i.e. channels.conf, setup.conf, ca.conf, ...)

Neither channels.conf nor setup.conf are really "static", since they can be
modified from the OSD menus. Only ca.conf is actually static.

> and variable data (i.e. epg-data, timers.conf, ...). Especially with timers.conf you'll have a wrap-around problem if you restore a backup of the current configuration directory.
> 
> If you want to comply with UN*X standards static data would go to (/usr/local)/etc/vdr variable data to /var/vdr

Maybe after 1.0.0...

Klaus
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