os-apply-config

os-apply-config does not preserve symlinks

Bug #1245953 reported by Clint Byrum
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os-apply-config
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

If os-apply-config is replacing a file that happens to be a symlink, the path is replaced with a symlink. It's not clear if that's a problem, but it is the current behaviour.

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix proposed to os-apply-config (master)

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/54377

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

It's not clear to me that this is a requirement. We can just put the template in the right place after all.

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote : Re: [Bug 1245953] Re: os-apply-config does not preserve symlinks

Excerpts from Robert Collins's message of 2013-10-30 07:06:37 UTC:
> It's not clear to me that this is a requirement. We can just put the
> template in the right place after all.
>

Requirement, maybe not. But does it ever make sense to replace a symlink
with a regular file in the context of os-apply-config?

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

I don't think we've got a good design answer for it, and we don't need it at this point - I want to put this on the back burner.

Changed in os-apply-config:
status: In Progress → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → Triaged
importance: High → Low
description: updated
Changed in os-apply-config:
assignee: Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) → nobody
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