[tbb-dev] [Tails-dev] Make Tor Binary location configurable in Tor Launcher?

Mark Smith mcs at pearlcrescent.com
Tue Jun 17 21:44:07 UTC 2014


On 6/17/14 4:42 PM, anonym wrote:
> 17/06/14 17:44, Mike Perry wrote:
>> While reviewing that patch, it occurred to me that it might be useful to
>> make the path to the Tor binary configurable in a pref, rather than
>> hardcoding the depth and pieces of the directory structure in the code
>> and launching logic.
>
> You've supported this for a while now via the
> extensions.torlauncher.*_path prefs and the code is still there (see
> beginning of _getTorFile). So should I take it that this is broken now,
> at least for the tor executable? Any way...

I hope it is not broken.  Last time I tried it, the pref override was 
working.  Regardless, this does not sound like an issue for Tails.

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