Re: [Autotest] [PATCH] Move global configuration files to client dir

2009-11-11 Thread Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 15:59 -0800, Steve Howard wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:30 AM, John Admanski wrote: > > I thought about it a bit more: > > > > Maybe a better approach would be to have the global_config module find > > the ini file in job.autodir (so on a client it would show up in the >

Re: [Autotest] [PATCH] Move global configuration files to client dir

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Howard
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:30 AM, John Admanski wrote: > I thought about it a bit more: > > Maybe a better approach would be to have the global_config module find > the ini file in job.autodir (so on a client it would show up in the > client/ dir, and on the server in the "true" top-level dir) and

Re: [Autotest] [PATCH] Move global configuration files to client dir

2009-11-11 Thread John Admanski
For now, since the original change to use global config on the client is causing some problem, I reverted the commit. See rev 3939. We can put it back in once we get this sorted out. -- John On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Scott Zawalski wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:37, John Admanski wr

Re: [Autotest] [PATCH] Move global configuration files to client dir

2009-11-11 Thread Scott Zawalski
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:37, John Admanski wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Martin Bligh wrote: >>> I thought about it a bit more: >>> >>> Maybe a better approach would be to have the global_config module find >>> the ini file in job.autodir (so on a client it would show up in the >>>

Re: [Autotest] [PATCH] Move global configuration files to client dir

2009-11-11 Thread John Admanski
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Martin Bligh wrote: >> I thought about it a bit more: >> >> Maybe a better approach would be to have the global_config module find >> the ini file in job.autodir (so on a client it would show up in the >> client/ dir, and on the server in the "true" top-level dir)

Re: [Autotest] [PATCH] Move global configuration files to client dir

2009-11-11 Thread Martin Bligh
> I thought about it a bit more: > > Maybe a better approach would be to have the global_config module find > the ini file in job.autodir (so on a client it would show up in the > client/ dir, and on the server in the "true" top-level dir) and then > add support to Autotest.run so that it copies ov

Re: [Autotest] [PATCH] Move global configuration files to client dir

2009-11-11 Thread John Admanski
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 07:32 -0800, John Admanski wrote: >> I don't think this is sufficient. It works in the simple cases, but >> what about when you're using packaging to install the clients and not >> rsync? I guess that still te

Re: [Autotest] [PATCH] Move global configuration files to client dir

2009-11-11 Thread Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 07:32 -0800, John Admanski wrote: > I don't think this is sufficient. It works in the simple cases, but > what about when you're using packaging to install the clients and not > rsync? I guess that still technically works...assuming that you > rebuild the client package whenev

Re: [Autotest] [PATCH] Move global configuration files to client dir

2009-11-11 Thread John Admanski
I don't think this is sufficient. It works in the simple cases, but what about when you're using packaging to install the clients and not rsync? I guess that still technically works...assuming that you rebuild the client package whenever you need to change the .ini. While not strictly wrong, this