[node-devel] RFE: Plugin validation after minimizing

[Joey Boggs]

On 11/20/2012 05:58 AM, Charles_Rose at Dell.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have an existing software developed for popular Linux distributions and satisfies some of the
> requirements to be a node plug-in, like files present in /opt/<vendor>/<plugin>, etc.
>
> There are some files present outside of /opt and that fails validation in
> edit_node:_validate_installed_files. These files are not critical for the functionality of the
> plugin and can be removed via /etc/ovirt-plugins.d/<plugin>.minimizer. But the minimizer runs
> *after* _validate_installed_files. So the validation fails anyway.
>
> The other way to address this might be with a separate set of packages that have the offending
> files/directories cleaned up and plug-in-ready. We would very much like to avoid taking this route
> for efficiency reasons.
>
> We would like to have a mechanism that can remove files/directories that are non-critical for the
> plug-in and *then* invoke _validate_installed_files. Since the minimizer would anyway remove some
> files/directories, it seems like validating the installed files makes more sense after unwanted
> files are removed, not before.
>
> Any thoughts/comments?
>
What directories are those files located under that would trigger the 
failure? The current list of valid locations was just a first pass at it 
and we can alter that list based on feedback.