Comment 4 for bug 1554152

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

bzr commit -m '* pollinate, pollinate.1: LP: #1554152
  - change the failure mode of pollinate, so as to more cleanly
    tolerate network failures
  - add a --strict option to re-enable the previous behavior,
    ie, strictly exit non-zero if pollinate fails for any reason
  - we've always promised that pollinate would operate on a best-effort
    basis, improving the prng seeding when possible, but failing
    gracefully when not possible; as such, we've made good on the first
    half of that promise, however, the latter half has proven
    troublesome; this is due to the fact that if pollinate exits
    non-zero, then its callers (cloud-init, maas, etc.) may well
    interpret the behavior strictly as a failure to boot the system,
    when in fact that's not the case; instead, we'll clearly print
    a warning to syslog, and we'll retry the seeding on next pollinate
    service start (e.g. a reboot); moreover, we'll carry a --strict
    flag in the case that users want to opt into the previous behavior' --fixes 'lp:1554152'
Committing to: /srv/media/src/pollinate/pollinate/
modified pollinate
modified pollinate.1
modified debian/changelog
Committed revision 293.