Bug 426512 - Alpine 1.00 for F7 puts default pine.conf in mystery directory; cannot find it, so one cannot change it
Summary: Alpine 1.00 for F7 puts default pine.conf in mystery directory; cannot find i...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: alpine
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Rex Dieter
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-12-21 16:48 UTC by Gilbert Sebenste
Modified: 2008-01-03 01:46 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 1.00-2.fc8
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Last Closed: 2008-01-03 01:27:59 UTC
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Description Gilbert Sebenste 2007-12-21 16:48:32 UTC
Description of problem: Alpine pine.conf file is hidden somewhere; it should be
either /etc/pine.conf or /usr/local/etc/pine.conf. It is neither and there is no
way to find out where the file is that it is actually using.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.00


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Alpine 1.00 uses a default pine.conf that is empty. But where it lies
(the one that it uses), is one of life's greatest mysteries. :-)
2.
3.
  
Actual results: Default pine.conf leaves configurations blank,
so I can't print, point at nntp server, etc.


Expected results: I should be able to do this.


Additional info: Where, or where has my pine.conf gone, oh where, oh where can
it be?

Comment 1 Gilbert Sebenste 2007-12-21 16:56:05 UTC
Aha! Figured it out. Duh...when I type pine -conf, it says it is in /usr/lib.
But when I go there, I don't see a file. But when I soft-link pine.conf in  my
/usr/local/etc file to /usr/lib, bingo! All is well. So we either need:

1. A default pine.conf in /usr/lib, or
2. We need to point pine to look in /usr/local/etc, or /etc for it.



Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2007-12-21 17:03:00 UTC
/etc/pine.conf 
should work (it does for me, last time I tried).

I'll go confirm using this build:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=28862

/etc/pine.conf seems to work, but /etc/pine.conf.fixed doesn't.

I'll keep digging.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2007-12-21 17:06:57 UTC
confirmed, fix coming right up.

Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2007-12-21 17:15:03 UTC
%changelog
* Fri Dec 22 2007 Rex Dieter <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> 1.00-2
- --with-system-pinerc=%_sysconfdir/pine.conf
  --with-system-fixed-pinerc=%_sysconfdir/pine.conf.fixed (#426512)

btw, %_sysconfdir = /etc

Comment 5 Gilbert Sebenste 2007-12-21 17:41:20 UTC
Yes, but I had a pine.conf in my /etc directory, and it still didn't
pick it up. Oh well.

OK, downloaded and installed it. Yep, fixed. +1 to updates and I'll close this 
ticket.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2007-12-23 22:50:25 UTC
alpine-1.00-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update alpine'

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2007-12-23 22:50:48 UTC
alpine-1.00-2.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update alpine'

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2007-12-26 23:51:59 UTC
alpine-1.00-2.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update alpine'

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2007-12-26 23:52:42 UTC
alpine-1.00-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update alpine'

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2008-01-03 01:27:57 UTC
alpine-1.00-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2008-01-03 01:46:29 UTC
alpine-1.00-2.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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