>Will the agent still consider/read the old configuration file? That's up to the packagers. The agent reads whatever config files are passed as args to the process.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Mathieu Gagné <[email protected]> wrote: > Adding [puppet] tag to subject. > > On 2015-07-02 11:35 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote: > > This change in neutron [1] renames the linuxbridge and openvswitch > > plugin config files. I'm familiar with the %config(noreplace) directive > > in rpm but I'm not sure if there is a special trick with rpm to rename a > > config file while not losing the changes in the config file during the > > upgrade. > > > > Is this just something that has to be handled with trickery in the %post > > macro where we merge the contents together if the old config file > > exists? Would symbolic links help? > > > > Changes like this seem like a potential giant pain in the ass for > > packagers. > > > > And people maintaining configuration manager. > Will the agent still consider/read the old configuration file? > > I'm not sure how we will be able to maintain compatibility without > involving manual steps or potential misconfiguration. Furthermore, we > have to consider upgrades. > > Neutron agent configuration files are already a mess in distribution > packaging. Ok, I exaggerated the situation, it's only a mess with Ubuntu > [2] where it thought it would be a great idea to read the agent config > from ml2_conf.ini instead of ovs_neutron_plugin.ini like all the other > distributions. > > Now as Puppet modules authors, should we just update the path to the > configuration file and hope it's compatible with upstream packages? > > > [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/195277/ > > [2] https://gist.github.com/mgagne/e2e06f5a8cb283a81cab > > -- > Mathieu > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Kevin Benton
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