[Users] Features requests for the setup/configuration utilities - feedback requested
Alex Lourie
alourie at redhat.com
Thu Mar 14 13:09:54 UTC 2013
>
> ----- 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!
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