On Jul 22, 2024 8:56 PM, Radomir Dopieralski <rdopiera@redhat.com> wrote:

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> I think the most sensible thing to do would be to be consistent and have symlinks for all configuration-related files, including local/local_settings.d, local/enabled,  and the policy files.

> There is code in the .spec file for at least some of that, but it seems to be conditional for some reason.

>

> On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 9:12 AM Francesco Di Nucci <francesco.dinucci@na.infn.it> wrote:

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>> Hello,

>>

>> some time ago I found that on EL9 Horizon searches for extra Python snippets in "/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/local/local_settings.d", while puppet-horizon places dashboards snippets in "/etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings.d", so these are not loaded. At the same time, "/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/local/local_settings.py" is a symlink to "/etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings".

>>

>> Of the following, what should be adopted as proper approach on a machine?

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>>  Having symlinks to /etc/openstack-dashboard for both local_settings.py and local_settings.d

>> Editing files in /usr/share/openstack-dashboard without having symlinks

>> Using a symlink for local_settings.py but placing snippets under /usr/share/openstack-dashboard

Config files must be in /etc. Anything else is wrong...

Thomas