gmane.comp.sysutils.bcfg2.devel

Problem with BDStats and MySQL

Rodney Young — 2012-05-10T17:55:12

Hello,
I hope this is the correct place to ask for help for a relative newbie. If
not, please let me know.

Having searched the archives, I don't see this specific problem addressed.
I am sure it is something simple I am missing.

I configured bcfg2-server to use BDStats plugin. I want to use a MySQL
database for flexibility. I have the database configured, tables creates,
packages installed, and /etc/bcfg2.conf edited. When I try to start the
bcfg2 daemon the status ends up "bcfg2-server dead but pid file exists".
When I don't daemonize:

root< at >server ~>bcfg2-server
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/bcfg2-server", line 71, in ?
    ca=setup['ca'],
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Component.py", line 61, in
run_component
    component = component_cls(cfile=cfile, **cls_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Server/Core.py", line 94, in
__init__
    self.init_plugins(plugin)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Server/Core.py", line 166,
in init_plugin

Client Tool Drivers for bcfg2

Calvin Cheng — 2012-04-30T03:06:32

Hello,

I am new to bcfg2 and am currently experimenting with it.

The first thing I noticed though is that it doesn't seem to offer client
tool drivers for arch linux.

Has anyone written something like that for arch linux? If so, I would like
to check it out and hopefully, some one could incorporate it into bcfg2
source.

OpenStack and bcfg2

Michael March — 2012-04-20T14:32:29

Narayan,

So I couldn't help noticing your email today on the OpenStack list (I
swear I'm not cyberstalking you :)  ) so I was wondering if you could
give a few sentences about your impressions of OpenStack in general
and specifically how well bcfg2 works with it.

My company is considering a OpenStack trail and any quick words you
have on it would be great.


--

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Ph: (415) 894-9269 ---- Fax: (602)296-0400
Twitter: cowmix -------------- Skype: Cowmix

PHP Pear Packages

mitchell — 2012-03-31T23:14:03

Hello,

Is it possible to manage PHP Pear packages with bcfg2?

Thank you in advance for your reply!

# mitchell

bcfg2 client and preinstall scripts

Gordon Messmer — 2012-03-21T23:31:54

I've noticed recently that RPM preinstall scripts don't get run when I 
use the bcfg2 client to set up new systems (CentOS 6, for instance). 
Consequently, new user accounts don't get installed when a package like 
bind or postgresql-server is installed.

Is anyone else seeing that problem?

bcfg2 1.2.2

Sol Jerome — 2012-03-20T16:02:32

A new release for bcfg2 1.2.2 is now available at:

ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg


This release has very few changes, but was necessary in order to restore
successful package builds (due to a missing dependency).


Sol

Bcfg2/bcfg2/examples

Raul Cuza — 2012-02-25T04:52:57

I'd like to change the examples folder for the CI work. Is anyone
currently using it as it for anything? I'll also check the docs and
trac site before I start making changes.

https://github.com/Bcfg2/bcfg2/tree/master/examples

Unified bcfg2.spec file?

686f6c6d — 2012-02-07T14:02:07

Hello list,
all the talk about the spec file last week made me wonder why we
currently have two of them (misc/bcfg2.spec and redhat/bcfg2.spec.in)
and who is using which one.

Them educationated folks on IRC clarified for me that the latter file
can be used to build with "make rpmdist" from git (or previously, from
svn) directly (at least as long as you retain the .git/ directory,
from which the version info is fetched). The misc/ file can be used
with the open build service, rpmbuild, and mock, and it seems to have
received a little more love recently (the redhat one does not build
the bcfg2-web package, f.e.). But then again, the misc/ version still
uses the debian init-scripts and /etc/defaults directory (and so does
the, most likely derived, fedora package, and some of my own
packages).

On IRC, everybody seemed to be using the file in misc/. Is anybody on
this list using the redhat/ flavor?

On top of the above differences, at least the Fedora project (Fabian
Affolter et al) and myself (openSUSE, someda

Making the bcfg2.spec mock-friendly

Jonathan Billings — 2012-01-30T17:15:22

In an effort to make the .../misc/bcfg2.spec buildable in mock
(https://fedorahosted.org/mock/) I think we need to remove the part of
the specfile that runs the 'rpm' command, which doesn't work under
mock.

To address this issue, I went back to see why it was added in the
first place.  It appears to have been added to address a requirement
difference between RHEL and SUSE:
https://github.com/Bcfg2/bcfg2/commit/f5bb417f750cc4b39d8b6cc6cae31e5c95800c67
(to address ticket 445
http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/ticket/445).

Now, I'm looking at the OpenSUSE repos, I only see python-lxml
packages anyway, so would it be ok to revert to just requiring
python-lxml?  I don't have any installed SUSE systems so I'm not sure
if older versions of OpenSUSE or the commercial distro still require a
simple 'lxml' package.  If so, I think we should simply use the RPM
spec macro language and distro variables to detect that platform and
require lxml, rather than executing the rpm command.

Any comments?

Bcfg2 1.2.1 released

Chris St. Pierre — 2012-01-27T20:38:36

A new release for Bcfg2 1.2.1 is now available at:

ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg

Bcfg2 1.2.1 is primarily a bugfix release, with over 2 dozen reported
bugs and dozens more unreported bugs fixed. The only significant
change from 1.2.0 is that regular expression support in Rules is now
optional, and off by default; see
http://docs.bcfg2.org/server/plugins/generators/rules.html#using-regular-expressions-in-rules
for more details.

A full list of bug fixes and cool new features is available at
https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/wiki/ReleaseAnnouncement/1.2.1

Proposal: Bcfg2 Branching Model

Raul Cuza — 2012-01-23T05:04:35

http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/wiki/DevelopmentBranchingModel

I've created a wiki page with a proposed branching model and request
your feedback. The goal of this wiki is to document how branches in
the Bcfg2 code repo will be managed. My hope is that it meets the
following stories:

 * As a user, I want to easily clone Bcfg2 and have confidence that it
will work in my environment.

 * As a developer, I want clear guidelines on how to contribute code
and work with others on features and fixes.

 * As QA or release manager, I want to change the CI server's job
configurations as little as possible.

--
Raul Cuza

Bcfg2 server rearchitecture

Chris St. Pierre — 2012-01-20T14:23:39

As hinted at earlier this week, I've been working on writing up a plan
for overhauling the Bcfg2 server architecture to make it more
scalable.  I'm finally done with the first draft, and it's long.
Really long.  I've put it up on Github so we can work on it
collaboratively:

https://github.com/stpierre/bcfg2-rearchitecture/

If you're interested in this kind of stuff and get a few spare
moments, please read it over, critique it, and, ideally, fork and
improve it.

Thanks!

Bcfg2 server architecture -- backend storage

Chris St. Pierre — 2012-01-18T19:50:45

I'm working on a writeup of what I see as the path forward to
rearchitect the server portion of Bcfg2 to make it more scalable --
or, really, scalable at all -- according to some discussions I've had
with Narayan and Sol, plus my own half-baked ideas.  I need some input
on what the best way to store the data is going to be as we move to a
more distributed architecture.

My thought is that we can split up the server into a few basic
components which, with proper asynchronous message passing, could be
run on a single machine or on multiple machines to let people scale
where their bottlenecks are.  The components are:

1.  A "master" process that handles SSL, authentication, and request
routing.  This would be fairly lightweight; ideally, something like a
WSGI app under Nginx/Apache, a Mongrel2 app, or a Twisted app.  (All
of those have benefits and drawbacks that I will be exploring further
as I feel this process out.)  It would probably also handle the
initial portion of the client-server discussion -- assert

Metadata group parsing improvements

Chris St. Pierre — 2012-01-18T02:22:21

This is another BEP - a Bcfg2 Enhancement Proposal.

I'd like to rewrite the groups.xml Metadata parser to implement
several new features:

1.  Nested group tags.

Currently, Bcfg2 does not support nesting group tags in groups.xml,
although it's supported everywhere else.  This reduces consistency,
and also makes it difficult to specify certain types of
configurations.  You can implement this sort of logic in Bundler, but
you cannot push out Cfg specific files to compositions of groups.
This would be implemented as, e.g.:

<Group name="foo">
  <Group name="bar">
    <Group name="baz"/>
    <Bundle name="quux"/>
  </Group>
  <Bundle name="xyzzy"/>
</Group>

2.  Client tags.

Client tags are supported in most other structural files -- anything
that uses the StructFile object for its internal modeling.  This
includes Bundler, info.xml, Decisions, Properties, and plenty of
others.  Adding Client tags to groups.xml will increase consistency.
It does not add any features that cannot already be obtained with
GroupP

bcfg2-server and NAT

Alexander Tiurin — 2012-01-13T08:40:18

Hello!


This is my scheme of bcfg2-server <> clients

*client                  gate (NAT)          bcfg2-server
8.8.8.8     <->    4.4.4.4       <->   10.11.110.111*

On gate I opened port 6789->10.11.110.111.

Then I run bcfg2

/# bcfg2 -qvn -p ovz-ubuntu10

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/bcfg2", line 340, in <module>
    client.run()
  File "/usr/sbin/bcfg2", line 191, in run
    proxy.AssertProfile(self.setup['profile'])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/Bcfg2/Proxy.py", line 304, in request
    self.send_content(h, request_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1349, in send_content
    connection.endheaders()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 904, in endheaders
    self._send_output()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 776, in _send_output
    sel

Commercial support for Bcfg2?

Jack Neely — 2012-01-06T22:50:55

Folks,

Here's an interesting question.  Does anyone offer commercial support
for Bcfg2?

Thanks,
Jack

Problems with RPM build from git

Jake Davis — 2012-01-03T20:45:53

Greetings,

I'm attempting to build 1.2.0 rpms from a git checkout following these
instructions:
http://docs.bcfg2.org/installation/packages.html#building-from-an-git-checkout

after "cd redhat; make" I get this error:

    error: File
/root/VCS/git/bcfg2.davisj/redhat/build/bcfg2-1.2.0.tar.gz: No such
file or directory
    make: *** [buildrpmdist] Error 1

I can get past that if I do this "cp build/bcfg2-1.2.0-0.0.tar.gz
build/bcfg2-1.2.0.tar.gz"
But then near the end I get this:

....
    Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files
/var/tmp/bcfg2-1.2.0-0.0-root-root
    error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Bcfg2Py3k.py
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Bcfg2Py3k.pyc
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Bcfg2Py3k.pyo
       /usr/sbin/bcfg2-test

    RPM build errors:
        Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Bcfg2Py3k.py
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bc

Commercial support for Bcfg2?

Jack Neely — 2012-01-06T22:50:55

Folks,

Here's an interesting question.  Does anyone offer commercial support
for Bcfg2?

Thanks,
Jack

Problems with RPM build from git

Jake Davis — 2012-01-03T20:45:53

Greetings,

I'm attempting to build 1.2.0 rpms from a git checkout following these
instructions:
http://docs.bcfg2.org/installation/packages.html#building-from-an-git-checkout

after "cd redhat; make" I get this error:

    error: File
/root/VCS/git/bcfg2.davisj/redhat/build/bcfg2-1.2.0.tar.gz: No such
file or directory
    make: *** [buildrpmdist] Error 1

I can get past that if I do this "cp build/bcfg2-1.2.0-0.0.tar.gz
build/bcfg2-1.2.0.tar.gz"
But then near the end I get this:

....
    Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files
/var/tmp/bcfg2-1.2.0-0.0-root-root
    error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Bcfg2Py3k.py
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Bcfg2Py3k.pyc
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Bcfg2Py3k.pyo
       /usr/sbin/bcfg2-test

    RPM build errors:
        Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Bcfg2Py3k.py
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bc

Commercial support for Bcfg2?

Jack Neely — 2012-01-06T22:50:55

Folks,

Here's an interesting question.  Does anyone offer commercial support
for Bcfg2?

Thanks,
Jack

Problems with RPM build from git

Jake Davis — 2012-01-03T20:45:53

Greetings,

I'm attempting to build 1.2.0 rpms from a git checkout following these
instructions:
http://docs.bcfg2.org/installation/packages.html#building-from-an-git-checkout

after "cd redhat; make" I get this error:

    error: File
/root/VCS/git/bcfg2.davisj/redhat/build/bcfg2-1.2.0.tar.gz: No such
file or directory
    make: *** [buildrpmdist] Error 1

I can get past that if I do this "cp build/bcfg2-1.2.0-0.0.tar.gz
build/bcfg2-1.2.0.tar.gz"
But then near the end I get this:

....
    Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files
/var/tmp/bcfg2-1.2.0-0.0-root-root
    error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Bcfg2Py3k.py
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Bcfg2Py3k.pyc
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Bcfg2Py3k.pyo
       /usr/sbin/bcfg2-test

    RPM build errors:
        Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Bcfg2Py3k.py
       /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bc