On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 03:39:41PM +1100, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Andreas Mock <[email protected]> wrote:
> > See below...
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [email protected] 
> >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Beekhof
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:59 AM
> >> To: General Linux-HA mailing list
> >> Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] Install problems with ha resource
> >> > I don't think it's mandated by the spec, at least it doesn't say
> >> > so :)
> >>
> >> Actually the spec says '/usr/ocf/resource.d':
> >>
> >>    
> >> https://github.com/ClusterLabs/OCF-spec/blob/master/ra/resource-agent-api.txt#L132
> >>
> >> I guess some packaging guideline got it pushed into lib and the spec
> >> wasn't updated.
> >> At any rate, it is not intended to be admin/user/builder configurable.
> >
> > Funny argumentation:
> > - Today the default OCF_ROOT path is not as stated in the spec.
> > - Someone changed it to a different path in real packaging.
> > RedHat and SuSE are selling products based on that. Why does
> > it not matter? Because it works.
> > - The reason for that change is not known at the moment
> > - Let's change the spec to reflect the reality
> > - BUT: Don't change the spec to allow relocation of OCF_ROOT when
> > there are meaningful arguments for doing so.
> 
> Its not funny at all.
> The last point is based on the amount of subtle breakage that is
> likely to occur since everything was written for a fixed value of
> /usr/lib/ocf

Indeed there is a possibility that different packages have
different locations configured, but then it's up to the user to
take care of that.

> I'm also yet to come across any "meaningful arguments for doing so" either.

We already have allowed changing OCF_ROOT in both cluster-glue
and resource-agents. And there is also the OCF_ROOT environment
variable. So, this discussion is mostly moot. Whether arguments
are meaningful or not, I don't think I can judge that.

Thanks,

Dejan


> > ;-)
> >
> > Best regards
> > Andreas Mock
> >
> >
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