[Kolab-devel] big troubles : use of templates

[Alain Spineux]

Hello

A lot of questions in the mailing list are about the lost of changes
made manually in configuration files, but not in the original template ...

Maybe, configurations file should contains _MORE_ aggressive mentions about
that !

If I look the beginning of /kolab/etc/postfix/main.cf

I see

------ snip ---------

# (c) 2004 Steffen Hansen <steffen at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se>
(Klaralvdalens Datakonsult AB)
# (c) 2003 Tassilo Erlewein <tassilo.erlewein at erfrakon.de>
# (c) 2003 Martin Konold <martin.konold at erfrakon.de>
# (c) 2003 Achim Frank <achim.frank at erfrakon.de>
# This program is Free Software under the GNU General Public License (>=v2).
# Read the file COPYING that comes with this packages for details.

# this file is automatically written by the Kolab config backend
# manual additions are lost unless made to the template in the Kolab config
directory

# postfix default is 10 240 000 Byte = 10.24 Megabyte,
# we use 20 Mebibyte = 20*2^20 Byte
message_size_limit = 20971520

------ snip ---------

Here,

# this file is automatically written by the Kolab config backend
# manual additions are lost unless made to the template in the Kolab config
directory

is a litlle invisible !

Maybe a good idea to replace this by something more visible like :

Just an idea.

------ snip ---------

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# manual additions to this file are lost unless made to the template in the
Kolab config directory

# (c) 2004 Steffen Hansen <steffen at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se>
(Klaralvdalens Datakonsult AB)
# (c) 2003 Tassilo Erlewein <tassilo.erlewein at erfrakon.de>
# (c) 2003 Martin Konold <martin.konold at erfrakon.de>
# (c) 2003 Achim Frank <achim.frank at erfrakon.de>
# This program is Free Software under the GNU General Public License (>=v2).
# Read the file COPYING that comes with this packages for details.

# this file is automatically written by the Kolab config backend
# manual additions are lost unless made to the template in the Kolab config
directory

# postfix default is 10 240 000 Byte = 10.24 Megabyte,
# we use 20 Mebibyte = 20*2^20 Byte
message_size_limit = 20971520

------ snip ---------



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Alain Spineux
aspineux gmail com
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