Hi Keith,

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Keith Mitchell wrote:

> transfer_mod.py: I'm wondering why you chose to use a "break" statement 
> instead of updating either line 934 or line 941 such that they're both either 
> using "retry_timeout > 0" (or both using ">= 0").

Neither of those work (I've tried them).

If you start out with retry_timeout being '0' 
changing to "retry_timeout >= 0" doesn't work because 
you end up doing a retry when you shouldn't. And, you end
up setting retry_timeout to a negative number as well 
which results in an infinite loop.

Also if you use "retry_timeout > 0", then you don't
execute the command even once if retry_timeout starts
out being '0'.

So, "break" seemed like the most straightforward
and one that worked in my testing as well.

> Additionally, if, after the timeout gets to 0 we haven't successfully 
> executed this block, I think we'll want to explicitly raise a TAbort with a 
> reasonable message.

I'm not sure I understand, can you rephrase that?

> media-fs-root: It seems like we could leave the "sshd -c" and "svcadm enable" 
> as common code, and then simply check the variable again and perform the 
> set_lang/kbd commands in the liveCD case. (I just noticed that sshd -c is not 
> run for liveCD - I didn't realize you could ssh in without running this 
> command? Or does some magic happen elsewhere that makes it work?)

I'm merely reverting this code to what it used to be
a couple of months back.

The keys are not generated for the Live CD case for some
reason. It could have something to do with making the Live CD
vulnerable to attacks if you do this (since it's built with
a known root password). OTOH, I don't see how ssh can be used 
without generating keys.

Which leads me to question whether QE is even using this
feature any more? AFAIK, the "enable ssh" feature was
requested primarily by QE.

Thanks for the review!
Alok

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