[Piuparts-devel] piuparts server packaging

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Montag, 18. Juni 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2012-06-18 00:49, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > /etc/piuparts/piuparts.conf currently belongs to master. I think that
> > should be splitted in /etc/piuparts/master.conf and
> > /etc/piuparts/slave.conf.. or?
> for a localhost setup clearly NO, as you would have to to duplicate
> nearly everything ...

So what?
 
> I don't have a clear plan, how to deploy a truly distributed system
> 
> we should support setting the PIUPARTS_CONF env var to point to a config
> file that will be used, defaulting to /etc/piuparts/piuparts.conf
> => TODO (the scripts bin/* that read the config file already do this)

sounds like a nice idea.
 
> its probably ok to ship the config in -master in /etc and in -slave in
> docs: * -master + -slave + default config = something that works out of
> the box * -slave only requires manual configuration anyway (ssh key
> transfer, setup a config, select sections to run)

I'd like to have a default config for sid tests with a master running on 
localhost enabled on installation of piuparts-slave. If there is no master 
running on localhost, the slave should be (rather very or totally) idle.

Just installing the piuparts-master package (with installing the slave 
package) should also not result in load, piuparts-report should detect that 
slaves were never running and thus abort immediatly.

> its probably better to have the same config file everywhere in a
> distributed system and then use e.g. /etc/default/piuparts-slave to
> restrict SECTIONS ... needs more thought ...

that could indeed be better than /etc/piuparts/slave.conf...

> > Havent seen those?!
> chown foo.bar is deprecated, use chown foo:bar

ah. understood it the other way round, fixed.

> > I've also split it into piuparts-(master|slave) now and am a bit unsure
> > about the slave package writing into the masters homedir... comments?
> What gets written there? the ssh key?
> piuparts-slave.postinst:
>   dpkg-trigger piuparts-master-please-install-the-slave-key

right.
 
> bad wording on my side ... docs should be served from the local
> instance, but there could be an additional link to the docs on piatti

ah. and no. documents should be served from the local instance, when 
applicable.(= not the wiki+bts+pts links..)


cheers,
	Holger