[Server-devel] Warning: breakage updating xs-config

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> #7708 - If you just install an XS, do the basic config (domain_config,
> etc) and then install a new xs-config, the install mechanism makes a
> mess. One tell-tale sign is that the files edited by domain_config are
> overwritten. Diagnosing more later...

Done a clean XS install off 165, and about to update it. But I
reviewed /etc and /var/named (which I know breaks) and I already have
a diagnosis.

First xs-config gets installed, and replaces files in /etc and
/var/named with symlinks. Second, the sysadmin runs domain_config, and
some of the scripts in domain_config run sed over symlinks in /etc
instead of doing it dorectly against the _target_ in
/fsroot.olpc.bla/. It's well known that sed -i (and perl -i, and
anything that does the same job) breaks symlinks.

Hmmm Hmm.

So the damage is done not at upgrade time, but at domain_config time.
So there's no easy/sane way I can fix it for already installed
machines. Anyone who installed an XS will need to apply some manual
steps to get the machine in a sane state after the next update.

Working with a solution now - but I had hoped for a "quick fix" I
could apply to ease the pain. No such. So I'm prob going to use the
sysconfig trick to divert to a different config file, and update the
domain_config machinery a bit to use templates.

No easy path unfortunately :-/

cheers,



m
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