[Yanel-usage] Problems with adding a new realm

[Josias Thöny]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 22:53 +0100, Andreas Wuest wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 5.1.2007 22:44 Uhr, Michael Wechner wrote:
> 
> > Andreas Wuest wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> After pulling my <realm/> up above the test realm, it now works.
> >>
> >> Does Yanel somehow depend on the order in which realms are listed in 
> >> the realms.conf?

BTW, there is a note in realms.xml about the ordering.
But I agree it's not very intuitive...

> > 
> > 
> > yes. The very last realm is the "root" realm. Also see the root=true 
> > attribute ;-)
> 
> So, why, if we already have a root attribute, does ordering still matter?
> 
> Either rely on ordering, or rely on an attribute, but not both!

Maybe we should remove the root attribute. We also could forget about
the ordering, yanel could sort the realms itself after reading the
config file (longest matching mount-point comes first). That way, the
realm with mount-point "/" would always be the root realm.

WDYT?

Josias

> 
> > I think it would be great to mention this within the documentation.
> > Maybe you want to submit a patch for the docu ;-)
> 
> Honestly, I still don't quite understand it, so I might be the wrong 
> person to document this topic.
> 
> But you could at least mention on 
> http://yanel.wyona.org/en/documentation/how-to-add-a-new-realm.html that 
> "thou shalt not, under no circumstances, addeth thy new realm at the 
> bottom of the realms list", or something along these lines...
>