Need help with storing dot files

[Alexander Larsson]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:37 AM Daniel Kasak <d.j.kasak.dk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all.
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> I'm trying to work around a strange issue with unixODBC, where I get unicode issues if I use the global odbcinst.ini file ( in my case, /app/etc/odbcinst.ini ). I've found previously that if I make an exact copy of the file to my home directory ( ie ~/.odbcinst.ini ), then things work fine. I've checked with strace, and both files are being read.
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> Anyway, I'll be taking up this issue with unixODBC people ASAP. But in the meantime ... it would be great if I could persist the local version. I can open a debug console, eg:
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> flatpak run -d --command=bash ${app_name}
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>  ... manually copy /app/etc/odbcinst.ini to ~/.odbcinst.ini and then launch my app, and it works fine. But ~/.odbcinst.ini is not persisted. This is confusing, because other things in the user's home folder *are* persisted ( eg we create a config database in ~/.smart_config/config.db ).
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> Is there a way to make ~/.odbcinst.ini persist? I'm not sure if I can make unixODBC read from other locations - and it's flaky enough as it is.

This sounds weird. There should be nothing special about
~/.odbcinst.ini. What file access are you giving your flatpak?
--filesystem=home?

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 Alexander Larsson                                Red Hat, Inc
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