Hi Patrick, thanks for your detailed feedback.
The file "/boot/grub/menu.lst" is not owned by any rpm package, so it is considered unmanaged. You can check this with the command `rpm -q --whatprovides /boot/grub/menu.lst` if you like. The problem is that by default Machinery ignores unmanaged files from "/boot". I think this filter was added because initrds can be quite big and the configuration files there are usually also generated and overwritten each time a new kernel is installed. For Grub2 for example the information used for the generation of the "/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" is stored under "/etc/default/grub". It seems though that in case of Grub1 the menu.lst is essential for Yast, so it doesn't look like that the information is stored somewhere else. So we will remove the "/boot" path from the default filter in the next Machinery release. At the moment there is no way to overwrite the default filters with a command line option. If you want to get rid of this one filter before our next release you can remove it from the file "filters/default_filters.json" in your machinery installation path . Regards Tim On 01/07/2016 08:22 PM, Swartz, Patrick wrote: > > Hello, > > The good… I recently had a wonderful opportunity to test out Machinery > between two SLES11 server to find why one was working as expect while > the other one wasn’t. The comparison did show me several key > components that I needed to fix. > > The “needs-work” … however, the main fix that I found wasn’t something > that Machinery picked up on, which surprised me a bit as it turned out > to be a difference in the kernel parameter in the /boot/grub/menu.lst > file. Seeing how that is a critical config file I would have thought > Machinery would inspect it along with the other configs it inspects. > > > > Admittedly I ran just stock inspect/compares, so is there a way > Machinery could have found this? > > > > Thanks again for a great tool and I’m excited about what I’ll be able > to do with it as I learn more. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Patrick H Swartz > > Lead Technical Analyst/Linux > > Tyson Foods, Inc. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the > intended addressee, then you have received this email in error and any > use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is > strictly prohibited. Please notify us immediately of your unintended > receipt by reply and then delete this email and your reply. Tyson > Foods, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates will not be held > liable to any person resulting from the unintended or unauthorized use > of any information contained in this email or as a result of any > additions or deletions of information originally contained in this email. > > > _______________________________________________ > Machinery mailing list > Machinery@lists.suse.com > http://lists.suse.com/mailman/listinfo/machinery -- SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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