Argh, I didn't realise there would be a warning if the file was missing.
Debian Policy forbids us from altering the contents of a conffile from
maintainer scripts, so we can't append to nova.conf when nova-compute
gets installed.
I suggest we either a --optional-flagfile that doesn't warn or
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When nova-compute is located on other hosts, nova-manage complains about
lack of nova-compute.conf:
:~# nova-manage help
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/nova/nova-compute.conf'
ERROR:: Unable to open flagfile: /etc/nova/nova-compute.conf
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Public bug reported:
When nova-compute is located on other hosts, nova-manage complains about
lack of nova-compute.conf:
:~# nova-manage help
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/nova/nova-compute.conf'
ERROR:: Unable to open flagfile: /etc/nova/nova-compute.conf
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