[Engine-devel] [Users] Features requests for the setup/configuration utilities - feedback requested

[Alex Lourie]

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: "Jiri Belka" <jbelka at redhat.com>
>>  To: "Alex Lourie" <alourie at redhat.com>
>>  Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org, Users at ovirt.org
>>  Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 2:52:31 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [Users] Features requests for the setup/configuration 
>> utilities - feedback requested
>>  
>>  On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:12:25 +0002
>>  Alex Lourie <alourie at redhat.com> wrote:
>>  
>>  > Hi All
>>  > 
>>  > As we are working on the configuration utilities (engine-setup,
>>  > engine-upgrade and engine-cleanup), we would like to get as much
>>  > community involvement as possible. As such, we'd like to hear the
>>  > wishes of the community in regards with those tools.
>>  
>>  1. do not think yum is everywhere, make package upgrade extensible
>>     by some subclasses (apt-get, pkg_add...)
>> 
> Right.
> 
>>  2. usernames are not same everywhere
>>     postgres is not everywhere
>> 
> Right.
> 
>>  3. do not make absolute symlinks, some packaging tools scream
>> 
> I replied to this one, I don't fully agree, relative symlinks have 
> their own issues, and hard to convert absolute to relative when 3rd 
> party components are involved.
> 
>>  4. do not use #!/bin/bash but #!/bin/sh, in 99,9% people are not
>>  using
>>     anything special from bash anyway
>> 
> This is out of scope, we will depend on bash for now... too much 
> legacy.
> We can attend to that in future.
> I can promise that no new code will be written in bash.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>>  
>>  jbelka
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Wiki updated.

Thanks!