[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] move replication topology to shared tree

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:17:46 -0400
Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:

> Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:21:57 +0200
> > Ludwig Krispenz <lkrispen at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> we already have ipa-replica-manage and ipa-csreplica-manage, and
> >> - I did'n want to integrate the topology management into both and 
> >> duplicate code
> >> - there is much change on the way to refactor the ipa commands, to
> >> move code into libraries, to expose to openLMI
> >> and I have no clear picture yet how this will look like, so I
> >> thought implementing the management command as subclasses of
> >> admintool would be a good starting point - I do not insist that
> >> ipa-topology-manage will survive as a command in the end, but I
> >> also do not want to mess with ipa-replica-manage and
> >> ipa-csreplica-manage now, when these changes also probably would
> >> have no future.
> > 
> > The ideal outcome is to have commands in the admintools indeed.
> 
> I thought the ideal was to have this in the framework so it was
> manageable via the UI, which the admin tools are not. Isn't that one
> of the main drivers for this reorganization? And to not require DM for
> anything?

Sorry I had a brain fart, I wrote admintools, but I meant ipa tool.
That's really non-negotiable to me, as we want this stuff to be
available in the UI, and we do not want to end up maintaining 2 sets
of tools that do the same things.

Thank you for pointing that out Rob !

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York