On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 01:02:44PM -0300, Marcelo Moreira de Mello wrote: >> >> When scheduling a config files deployment using the webUI, rhn_check fails >> if some file scheduled does not have a valid UID/GID into client box. >> > > With current unpatched code, when this happens -- are some of the > files deployed and some not, or is the whole deployment cancelled? > I am not completely sure it is correct to deploy half of the files > and not deploy the other half -- especially with the batch-oriented > processing of scheduled actions, you don't want the machine to be > left in an inconsistent state. At unpatched code, the whole deployment is cancelled. It rollbacks all the files and none files is deployed. When I started looking into this issue, I had the thinking that you. > >> This patch introduce to rhn_check the same behavior as rhncfg-client get >> allowing the correct files (which have a valid UID/GID) to be deployed and >> fails to those files which misses a valid UID/GID. >> > > I assume that rhncfg-client get complains loudly about the files it > failed to deploy. From this point of view, it is tolerable that > rhncfg-client get would only deploy half of the files because there > is likely person running that command which would be able to respond > accordingly. Yes. rhncfg-client get complains and print into the screen the files which were not able to be deployed. Although, we can see a lot of sysadmin using the rhncfg-client get at %post section in their kickstart, where they will not be able to see such warning too. In this case per example, we have a customer which expects that rhn_check works deploying half of files, but I do agree with you that in some other cases, we don't want the machine to be left in an inconsistent state. I think that we can offer to the users an option to make such behavior with a tunable parameter. Per example, we can add a new option at rhn-actions-control --enable-half-deploy or --enable-unbatch which turns rhn_check able to perform unbatched deployments. Please, check the comment https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737698#c1 regarding the customer's expectations. What do you think? Appreciate your help. Best Regards, mmello > > -- > Jan Pazdziora > Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-devel mailing list > Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
