Feature #2158

Allow better control of file-based configuration

Added by Anonymous about 9 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:ResolvedStart date:06/17/2016
Priority:NormalDue date:
Assignee:J. Moringen% Done:

100%

Category:Configuration
Target version:rsb-0.15

Description

RSB Configuration currently loads config files from three different places (system config from PREFIX/etc/rsb.conf, user config from ~/.config/rsb.conf, and current directory config from $(pwd)/rsb.conf). This is a reasonable default, but might be inefficient or even unfitting in some cases. For example:

  1. When users have an install prefix /vol/mysystem for their system, but use rsb from another place (often /vol/toolkit/... in our case), the above file-based configuration won't load configuration from the system prefix /vol/mysystem/etc, but the rsb prefix (/vol/toolkit/.../etc/) instead, which does not allow system-specific configuration as intended.
  2. I might not have control (e.g. write permissions) over the system config, but might not want to overwrite every unwanted option of the system config in my user config.
So for this, I suggest to introduce an environment variable, that allows you to better control the file-based configuration, for example by
  • adding pathes or
  • inhibit default pathes (#1716)

Maybe similar to how I configure unix PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables.


Subtasks

Feature #2565: Configurable list of configuration files [Python]ResolvedJ. Moringen

Feature #2566: Configurable list of configuration files [C++]ResolvedJ. Moringen

Feature #2567: Configurable list of configuration files [Java]ResolvedJ. Moringen

Feature #2568: Configurable list of configuration files [Common Lisp]ResolvedJ. Moringen


Related issues

Related to Robotics Service Bus - Feature #1716: Add an environment variable which inhibits file-based con... Closed 01/07/2014

Associated revisions

Revision ee2d06aa
Added by J. Moringen over 7 years ago

Added description of RSB_CONFIG_FILES in *.rst

refs #2158

  • specification-config.rst (Non-default Configuration File Cascade): new
    section; describes RSB_CONFIG_FILES
  • common-command-line-options.rst (Common Environment Variables): added
    RSB_CONFIG_FILES
  • news.rst (RSB 0.15): mention RSB_CONFIG_FILES

History

#1 Updated by Anonymous about 9 years ago

  • Related to Feature #1716: Add an environment variable which inhibits file-based configuration added

#2 Updated by C. Emmerich about 9 years ago

+1

#3 Updated by J. Moringen almost 8 years ago

  • Target version set to rsb-0.15

#4 Updated by J. Moringen over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to In Progress

#5 Updated by J. Moringen over 7 years ago

  • Assignee set to J. Moringen

#6 Updated by J. Moringen over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved

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