[Yanel-usage] Problems with adding a new realm

[Michael Wechner]

Josias Thöny wrote:

>On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 22:53 +0100, Andreas Wuest wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>On 5.1.2007 22:44 Uhr, Michael Wechner wrote:
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>>>Andreas Wuest wrote:
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>>>>Hi
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>>>>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?
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>BTW, there is a note in realms.xml about the ordering.
>But I agree it's not very intuitive...
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well, but it's prominent (IMPORT NOTE ;-)

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

> 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.
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Could there be sideeffects?

Thanks

Michi

>WDYT?
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>Josias
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>>>I think it would be great to mention this within the documentation.
>>>Maybe you want to submit a patch for the docu ;-)
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>>Honestly, I still don't quite understand it, so I might be the wrong 
>>person to document this topic.
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>>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...
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