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| author | Siri Hansen <[email protected]> | 2018-03-05 14:54:42 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <[email protected]> | 2018-03-05 14:54:42 +0100 |
| commit | f52f9f312d811e0a8b83b8427944f4e9b3ffd6b8 (patch) | |
| tree | 695ff2dc9399806d19ed85d0809b78e18407961a /system | |
| parent | 93b037b02e2863c93df6cf70ab96137822904df6 (diff) | |
| parent | 1cf7851ccb002c95c0ef19a67807fb33895b723b (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #1560 from tsloughter/no_warn_sysconfig
Include sys.config.src in release tar file
OTP-14950
Diffstat (limited to 'system')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/design_principles/release_structure.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/system_principles/create_target.xmlsrc | 8 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/design_principles/release_structure.xml b/system/doc/design_principles/release_structure.xml index a0ab21c43f..8e62ba845f 100644 --- a/system/doc/design_principles/release_structure.xml +++ b/system/doc/design_principles/release_structure.xml @@ -208,8 +208,8 @@ releases/ch_rel-1.rel</pre> is therefore now instead duplicated in the tar file so no manual copying is necessary.</p> <p>If a <c>relup</c> file and/or a system configuration file called - <c>sys.config</c> is found, these files are also included in - the release package. See + <c>sys.config</c>, or a <c>sys.config.src</c>, is found, these files + are also included in the release package. See <seealso marker="release_handling#req">Release Handling</seealso>.</p> <p>Options can be set to make the release package include source code and the ERTS binary as well.</p> @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ $ROOT/lib/App1-AVsn1/ebin <item><c>erts-EVsn/bin</c> - Erlang runtime system executables</item> <item><c>releases/Vsn</c> - <c>.rel</c> file and boot script <c>start.boot</c>; if present in the release package, <c>relup</c> - and/or <c>sys.config</c></item> + and/or <c>sys.config</c> or <c>sys.config.src</c></item> <item><c>bin</c> - Top-level Erlang runtime system executables</item> </list> <p>Applications are not required to be located under directory diff --git a/system/doc/system_principles/create_target.xmlsrc b/system/doc/system_principles/create_target.xmlsrc index f9b27ffc35..dc6cbbe980 100644 --- a/system/doc/system_principles/create_target.xmlsrc +++ b/system/doc/system_principles/create_target.xmlsrc @@ -263,6 +263,14 @@ os> <input>/usr/local/erl-target/bin/erl -boot /usr/local/erl-target/releases/FI current directory create not only the file <c>mysystem.rel</c>, but also file <c>sys.config</c>, the latter file is tacitly put in the appropriate directory.</p> + <p>However, it can also be convenient to replace variables in + within a <c>sys.config</c> on the target after unpacking but + before running the release. If you have a <c>sys.config.src</c> + it will be included and is not required to be a valid Erlang term + file like <c>sys.config</c>. Before running the release you must + have a valid <c>sys.config</c> in the same directory, so using + <c>sys.config.src</c> requires having some tool to populate what is + needed and write <c>sys.config</c> to disk before booting the release.</p> </section> <section> |