Re: FTWCA storing config/ in VCS

[Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>]

I've improved this, the way config.cfg is handled is:

  * if config.cfg is executed, its output is taken as extra arguments.

  * if config.cfg is not executable, but it's readable, its content
    is taken as arguments.

this allows to have dynamic flags depending on whatever you want, e.g.
the following use case:

when i build the image on my machine at home, i want to use my local
mirror for it. when i build the image somewhere else, i'd like to use a
regular debian mirror.

for this, i would create config.cfg the following (certainly stupid to
do it with wget but i'm lazy now and i'm sure you'll get the idea) and
make it executable:

---snip---
#!/bin/sh

if wget -q http://mirror/ftp.debian.org/debian/ -O /dev/null
then
	echo "--mirror http://mirror/ftp.debian.org/debian/";
else
	echo "--mirror http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/";
fi
---snap---

Regards,
Daniel

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