Hi Cameron,

Yeah, that's an important one.
Thanks for finding this. I'll correct it.

Aaron

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Cameron Mann <cameron.m...@cybera.ca> wrote:
> I believe I've found another reason to cut RC2:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-vcl-commits/201205.mbox/%3c20120522134739.589bc2388...@eris.apache.org%3E
>
> It looks like when updating the version numbers a find/replace of 1.00 with
> 2.3 was done, but without the period escaped, thus matching a number of
> unintended targets (e.g. in VMware.pm e1000 was replaced with e2.3 in the
> NIC configuration).
>
> Cameron
>
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Josh Thompson <josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu>wrote:
>
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>> Aaron,
>>
>> You're not being a stick in the mud.  I think it's great that you tested it
>> well enough to find a few things that need to be corrected - that's the
>> whole
>> point of having a community vote to do a release.  I definitely consider
>> the
>> Shibboleth issue big enough to cut a new RC (even though that requires a
>> new
>> vote).
>>
>> All,
>>
>> Aaron has some good points.  I think we should fix the issues he mentioned
>> and
>> cut RC2 for 2.3.  This isn't an official vote process, but please share any
>> thoughts you have.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:41:12 PM Aaron Coburn wrote:
>> > -1
>> >
>> > Sorry to a stick in the mud, guys, since I'd certainly like to see 2.3
>> > released soon, but I encountered a few issues that I think should be
>> fixed
>> > before cutting the release.
>> >
>> > I installed the release candidate using a fresh database, testing
>> against a
>> > vCenter provisioning engine and Shibboleth authentication. I was using a
>> > 64-bit Windows 7 image.
>> >
>> > The first issue I encountered was that each time the management node
>> calls
>> > 'get_file_contents', the contents of the target file are printed to the
>> > log. This is generally not an issue, but when a slice of the registry is
>> > retrieved, that amounted to ~30,000 lines in my logfile. And that happens
>> > each time an image is reloaded. (Somehow I hadn't noticed this with the
>> > code from about two weeks ago). I can certainly see the usefulness of
>> this
>> > during development, but I don't like the fact that this is the default
>> > behavior for a release. For now, I would suggest modifying line 1789 of
>> > OS.pm:
>> >
>> > -    my ($exit_status, $output) = $self->execute($command);
>> > +    my ($exit_status, $output) = $self->execute($command, 0); # do not
>> > print the cmd output to the log
>> >
>> > Later, it could be nice to make this somewhat more configurable.
>> >
>> >
>> > Second, if the system is using Shibboleth it is not possible to handle
>> users
>> > who have not previously logged in (i.e. adding someone to a group). There
>> > are two bugs preventing this from working properly. First, if someone
>> > enables ALLOWADDSHIBUSERS in conf.php but doesn't define a value in
>> > $addUserFuncArgs (I would anticipate this to be what most people using
>> Shib
>> > would do, since there is no documentation about what that array is for),
>> > the initGlobals() function does not properly populate the addUserFuncArgs
>> > array. This can be fixed by adding $addUserFuncArgs to the list of
>> 'global'
>> > values on line 68 in utils.php -- the current code is just modifying a
>> > local value, not the global one:
>> >
>> > -    global $affilValFunc, $addUserFunc, $updateUserFunc;
>> > +    global $affilValFunc, $addUserFunc, $updateUserFunc,
>> $addUserFuncArgs;
>> >
>> > Once that change is made, though, there is also a SQL query expecting a
>> > 'validated' field in the users table. This field, however, does not
>> exist.
>> > It is in neither update-vcl.sql nor in vcl.sql:
>> >
>> > vcl.sql, line 1079:
>> >
>> > +  `validated` tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL default '1',
>> >
>> > and update-vcl.sql, lines 827-
>> >
>> > + -- --------------------------------------------------------
>> > +
>> > + --
>> > + -- Table structure for table `user`
>> > + --
>> > +
>> > + CALL AddColumnIfNotExists('user', 'validated', "tinyint(1) unsigned NOT
>> > NULL default '1'"); +
>> >
>> > Once these two changes are made, however, I am able to add shib users
>> > exactly as the documentation suggests.
>> >
>> > Otherwise, everything else looks good.
>> >
>> >
>> > Aaron
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