[bug-sourceinstall] Re: patch to allow alternate location for .sourceinstall

[Claudio Fontana]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Brian Gough <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think it could be useful to allow the user to set an alternative
> location for the .sourceinstall directory.  The patch below gives the
> environment variable SOURCEINSTALL priority over HOME if it is set,
> otherwise the behavior is the same.

I normally just symlink from ~/.sourceinstall. However, if you think
it makes sense
to easily switch between directories, I can include this.

>
> Index: srcinst.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/sourceinstall/sourceinstall2/libsrcinst/srcinst.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.24
> diff -u -r1.24 srcinst.c
> --- srcinst.c   8 Dec 2007 15:51:29 -0000       1.24
> +++ srcinst.c   5 Dec 2009 22:05:14 -0000
> @@ -433,10 +437,14 @@
>     memset(_srcinst_state.files, 0, sizeof(char *) * SRCINST_FILE_N);
>     memset(_srcinst_state.dirs, 0, sizeof(char *) * SRCINST_DIR_N);
>
> -    if (!(h = getenv("HOME"))) {
> -       srcinst_warning(SRCINST_ERR_CORE, _("cannot find env variable HOME"),
> -                       0);
> -       return 0;
> +    if (h = getenv("SOURCEINSTALL")) {
> +      /* use SOURCEINSTALL environment variable */
> +    } else if (h = getenv("HOME")) {
> +      /* use HOME environment variable */
> +    } else {
> +      srcinst_warning(SRCINST_ERR_CORE, _("cannot find env variable HOME"),
> +                     0);
> +      return 0;
>     }
>
>     if (!getcwd(buffer, SRCINST_BUFSIZE)) {
>