[tor-bugs] #2821 [Vidalia]: Give Vidalia a bootstrap option for torrc

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#2821: Give Vidalia a bootstrap option for torrc
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 Reporter:  erinn        |          Owner:  chiiph
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:        
Component:  Vidalia      |        Version:        
 Keywords:               |         Parent:        
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 Currently, unless a torrc is specified with the appropriate options,
 Vidalia is unable to launch automatically as a bridge even if vidalia.conf
 is configured appropriately.

 This is a problem for creating bridge bundles on OS X because OS X looks
 for the torrc in ~/Library/Vidalia, which is a directory the Vidalia
 Bundle does not write to, since it's not an installer. Once launched,
 Vidalia remains unchecked as a bridge, but if you check 'help censored
 users reach the internet', all of the pre-filled bridge information is
 there.

 It is possible to specify a different DataDirectory for Vidalia in its
 vidalia.conf, and one could theoretically point that to any location on
 the filesystem with the path to the correct torrc, but then Tor will try
 to write information there, which violates the OS X filesystem hierarchy.
 (I think.)

 One idea is to make it possible for Vidalia to read a torrc and then write
 it to the correct directory, while preserving the old torrc the way it
 currently does.
 Tomás's proposal is to create Bootstrap=true and
 BootstrapFrom=/path/to/dir options for vidalia.conf which would allow us
 to specify that Vidalia should be bootstrapped with a diff
 erent torrc, and will prevent it from writing to system paths that it
 should not write to.

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