[Engine-devel] engine-config utility

[Shireesh Anjal]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 4:41:52 PM
> Subject: [Engine-devel] engine-config utility
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I had interesting discussion with Eli regarding the engine-config
> utility and recent commit.
> 
> Is the following claim correct?
> 
> """Every change of a variable by engine-config cannot break engine"""
> 
> This issue came up because we used to export the CABaseDirectory
> parameter to engine-config. Changing it without attending to copy
> pki files may lead to failure. A change was already committed to
> remove the ability to update this parameter.
> 
> Most applications I know, do allow to change variable that in certain
> cases may break the application. The assumption that I am usually
> familiar with is that the target audience of these kind of tools are
> system admins or integrators, which "should know what they are
> doing", so it is OK to expose parameters that may lead to
> application breakage, as the ability to customize the application is
> important.

I agree with Alon. I don't think it is feasible to prevent the user from every possible update of configuration that can break the system.

> 
> I am carious what other think in this regard.
> 
> Regards,
> Alon Bar-Lev.
> 
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