Ignore local.cfg by default. Provide an EXAMPLE. Make sure Maven assembly handles local.cfg. Make sure Ant build reads local.cfg

.gitignore

@@ -24,8 +24,14 @@ nb-configuration.xml
 META-INF/
 
 ## Ignore all *.properties file in root folder, EXCEPT build.properties (the default)
+## KEPT FOR BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY WITH 5.x (build.properties is now replaced with local.cfg)
 /*.properties
 !/build.properties
 
+# Ignore a local.cfg file in root folder, if it exists
+/local.cfg
+# Also ignore it under dspace/config
+/dspace/config/local.cfg
+
 ##Mac noise
 .DS_Store

dspace/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml

@@ -42,6 +42,14 @@
             <exclude>LICENSE_HEADER</exclude>
          </excludes>
       </fileSet>
+      <!-- If local.cfg is in the root folder, copy it to config folder -->
+      <fileSet>
+         <directory>..</directory>
+         <outputDirectory>config</outputDirectory>
+         <includes>
+            <include>local.cfg</include>
+         </includes>
+      </fileSet>
       <!-- Copy necessary subdirectories to resulting directory -->
       <!-- First, copy over our configurations -->
       <fileSet>

dspace/src/main/config/build.xml

@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ Common usage:
     <!-- ============================================================= -->
     <!-- Will be using various environment variables                   -->
     <!-- ============================================================= -->
-
     <property environment="env" />
 
 
@@ -62,30 +61,21 @@ Common usage:
         </not>
     </condition>
 
-
-    <!-- Default configuration to use.  This may be overridden. -->
-    <property name="config" value="config/dspace.cfg" />
+    <!-- Default configurations to use.  This may be overridden. -->
+    <!-- First, the default localized config file -->
+    <property name="config" value="config/local.cfg" />
+    <!-- Next, the default dspace.cfg -->
+    <property name="dspace-config" value="config/dspace.cfg" />
 
     <!-- Give user a chance to override without editing this file
        (and without typing -D each time s/he compiles it) -->
     <property file="${user.home}/.dspace.properties" />
 
-    <!-- First, set the dspace.dir property so it can be
-       interpolated when loading the config file.
-       This crudely mimics the way ConfigurationManager interpolates properties.
-       Note that it ONLY works for directories that interpolate ${dspace.dir}
-       but that _should_ cover all cases used in this build configuration.
-    -->
-    <loadproperties srcFile="${config}">
-        <filterchain>
-            <linecontainsregexp>
-                <regexp pattern="^\s*dspace\.dir\s+" />
-            </linecontainsregexp>
-        </filterchain>
-    </loadproperties>
-
-    <!-- Load the configuration -->
+    <!-- Load the configurations -->
+    <!-- In Ant, properties are immutable, so the first one "wins". In this case,
+         we load the local.cfg FIRST, so that its settings are used by default. -->
     <property file="${config}" />
+    <property file="${dspace-config}" />
 
     <!-- Timestamp date used when creating backup directories -->
     <tstamp>
@@ -338,7 +328,7 @@ Common usage:
         <!--
         Copy designated dspace.cfg
         -->
-        <copy file="${config}" tofile="config-temp/dspace.cfg" preservelastmodified="true" />
+        <copy file="${dspace-config}" tofile="config-temp/dspace.cfg" preservelastmodified="true" />
 
         <!--
         If designated config isn't the one in config/dspace.cfg then lets put a copy of that next to it
@@ -351,7 +341,7 @@ Common usage:
         </copy>
 
         <!--
-        Prepare properly filtered files
+        Copy over all other config files (not including dspace.cfg)
         -->
         <copy todir="config-temp" preservelastmodified="true" overwrite="true" failonerror="false">
             <fileset dir="config" excludes="dspace.cfg" />
@@ -771,7 +761,7 @@ Common usage:
             <fileset dir="config" excludes="dspace.cfg" />
         </copy>
 
-        <copy file="${config}" tofile="${dspace.dir}/config/dspace.cfg" preservelastmodified="true" />
+        <copy file="${dspace-config}" tofile="${dspace.dir}/config/dspace.cfg" preservelastmodified="true" />
 
         <echo file='${dspace.dir}/config/ant.properties' message='ant.version = ${ant.version}'/>