Hi Cleber,

On 30.05.2012 [19:55:20 -0300], Cleber Rosa wrote:
> On 05/30/2012 07:52 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> >On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 19:49 -0300, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> >>On 05/30/2012 06:48 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> >>>On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:41 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> >>>>On 30.05.2012 [18:26:58 -0300], Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> >>>>>On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:23 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> >>>>>>On 26.05.2012 [18:03:31 -0300], Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> >>>>>>>On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 16:31 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> >>>>>>>>Sometimes there are firewalls between test machines and the greater
> >>>>>>>>Internet, so it seems unwise to depend upon external network access in
> >>>>>>>>the boottool/grubby building code. But some sites won't have those
> >>>>>>>>restrictions. Add the ability to configure a local mirror for the 
> >>>>>>>>grubby
> >>>>>>>>tarball in the CLIENT section, but default to the external location.
> >>>>>>>The problem with this patch is that makes boottool dependent on 
> >>>>>>>autotest
> >>>>>>>libraries, when the script itself is sometimes used in a stand alone
> >>>>>>>fashion. Therefore, I can't accept this as is.
> >>>>>>Ah makes sense. I didn't realize boottool was used stand-alone, sorry.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Cleber, I believe we should try to locate and download boottool from 
> >>>>>>>the
> >>>>>>>copy present in the autotest tree, before trying to reach out to 
> >>>>>>>github.
> >>>>>>>What do you say?
> >>>>>>Ah I didn't even realize there was one in client/deps/grubby -- so,
> >>>>>>would we try and push it out with the rest of autotest? I'm not sure
> >>>>>>pulling will work, as the client/deps/grubby path isn't guaranteed (nor
> >>>>>>is it setup to be, afaict) part of the web-exposed path.
> >>>>>This is what I'd like to do, find a way to ensure the grubby tarball
> >>>>>gets copied when the client is installed. This way we wouldn't ever have
> >>>>>to resort to an external copy.
> >>Well, did you guys miss the response I posted a couple of days ago?
> >>Copying it again:
> >>
> >>---
> >>
> >>On client mode that is definitely the best thing to do. But that would
> >>fail on server mode.
> >>
> >>I suggest that boottool looks for the grubby tarball on those locations:
> >>
> >>1) current directory (would solve server mode if we also send the
> >>tarball to the client)
> >>2) autotest source tree
> >>3) remote github uri
> >>
> >>How does that sound?
> >>
> >>---
> >>
> >>So, adding that to the rsync'd path list sounds like implementing #2. #1
> >>is still needed, and number #3 is a fallback that may be skipped.
> >>
> >>Are we all on the same page here?
> >Yes, we are, implementing 1) and 2) is exactly what I had in mind.
> >
> 
> OK, great! I guess there was a bit of miscommunication my part. /me
> glad that we all share the same point of view.

Sorry for not replying to your other e-mail -- I've had some power
issues at home. I agree we are in agreement :)

Are you working on implementing any of this?

Thanks,
Nish

-- 
Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]>
IBM Linux Technology Center

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