For users who have deployed modernpaste within their organization, it would be helpful to have the url that fpaste uses by default configurable via a command line option. Often enterprises uses cannot use the public url because they don't want to paste potentially sensitive information there
A drop in directory (/etc/fpaste.d/) for a config file would be very helpful as well
So, fpaste is sort of specific to whatever pastebin the Fedora community uses, so we basically keep it in sync with what we have, and what options the server is set up to provide/use. It isn't meant to be a general purpose tool. Each of these paste servers provide their own client tools which users should be using. If people want to use the --sysinfo functionality, they're better off using --printonly and piping it to their paste client maybe?
I'm not too keen on supporting different paste server deployments using an option because then if something doesn't work in fpaste because of the server configuration, the bug will be filed here, and we just cannot implement the complete mix of configurations/options that different deployments will offer. :(
(There's partial work on supporting a config file and both modernpaste + stikked, but it isn't complete and I do not see free cycles to complete it in the near future either. https://pagure.io/fpaste/tree/modularise)
Compatibility concerns are understandable but resolvable by just documenting the compatibility requirements ie) Do you need anything beyond just running modernpaste on the server to be compatible? I am fine with saying, fpaste will only support whatever fpaste.org happens to run at that moment
I've updated the summary and description in the spec to say that fpaste only supports whatever paste server the Fedora community is running. Pushing updates now.
Log in to comment on this ticket.