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Subject: Re: [07/11] git commit: TS-2401: Remove global system_runtime_dir
From: James Peach <jpeach@apache.org>
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Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:14:46 -0800
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On Dec 6, 2013, at 8:15 AM, Igor Gali=C4=87 <i.galic@brainsware.org> =
wrote:

>=20
>=20
> ----- Original Message -----
>> TS-2401: Remove global system_runtime_dir
>>=20
>> Introduce RecConfigReadRuntimeDir() to centralize overriding
>> Layout::runtimedir with proxy.config.local_state_dir. Use this to
>> replace all the instances of system_runtime_dir.
>=20
> Do I understand it correctly that we can now (or always could?)
> easily relocate a trafficserver installation, and run multiple =
instances
> by simply setting a different proxy.config.local_state_dir ?

This feature was always present, but inconsistently applied. It should =
work correctly now. You have always been able to use $TS_ROOT to =
relocate $PREFIX and I've used that for test suites. Soon I'll post a =
patch that uses it ;)

>=20
> Analogous to =
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#defaultruntimedir )
>=20
> I'm aware that this isn't useful for most users, but it may well be
> useful to developers.

Probably useful to ops in certain deployment environments.

J=