[Pkg-puppet-devel] d2d679e004fbd73cb7f948828ea7fa947a568dcd

[Micah Anderson]

* Sam Quigley <quigley at emerose.com> [2008-04-14 14:05-0400]:
> Hey --
>
> On Apr 14, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Micah Anderson wrote:
>>
>> 4. Finally, I made changes to the LSB headers in the initscripts. I
>> removed a long series of white space after all the headers that  
>> probably
>> got put in there from a cut and paste, and was causing update-rc.d to
>> complain that there wasn't actually a LSB header. Secondly I got an
>> email from Sam Quigley who pointed out a problem on Ubuntu gutsy which
>> starts puppet before the network has been fully configured so you get
>> "no route to host" errors on boot. So I added $network and $named to  
>> the
>> Required-Start and Required-Stop headers for the puppet initscript;  
>> and
>> I put $network in the Should-Start/Should-Stop headers for the
>> puppetmaster. My reasoning was that the network should be there, but  
>> if
>> its not, puppetmaster will still run fine.
>>
>> However, I am wondering if maybe the puppet init script should instead
>> have the Should-Start: $network and Should-Stop: $network, and not  
>> make
>> it a hard requirement (as the Required-Start does), but an advisable
>> one. I was thinking of the case where I might be with my laptop on the
>> train, with no internet, but I have a local dev puppetmaster running  
>> on
>> my laptop and a puppetd that queries my puppetmaster on
>> 127.0.0.1... that seems like a legitimate setup and shouldn't be
>> forbidden (which would be the case if using the Required fields).
>
> I guess the question is whether Requiring $network simply ensures "ifup 
> -a" has been called (which would presumably work, even if it didn't do 
> anything, on a disconnected machine) -- or if it would actually crap out 
> unless the network comes up.  I'd have assumed the former, but 
> unfortunately, I don't know enough about the header semantics to answer 
> the question with any real authority.
> Basically, I'm stuck on trying to figure out if I should be making                                                                                         
> the $network a hard requirement for programs that can work without                                                                                         
> them. This seems like a good candidate for Should-Start/Stop, but we                                                                                       
> are not sure what Requiring $network actually means behind the                                                                                             
> scenes.                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                             
It turns out that for a package that should be able to be installed
without netbase being installed, should-* is the correct place to put
$network. But, if it requires netbase to be present to be able to work,
it should put $network in require-*.  As most machines have netbase
installed anyway, it does not have much practical effect.
                                                                                                                                                             
I'm going to keep them in the Required- fields and if that doesn't cut
the mustard, we can revisit the mustard plant.

Micah

ps - I'm planning on an upload soon, as I didn't received any
indications I should wait.
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