[Freeipa-devel] kra an ca instance installation

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 15:52 +0200, Jan Cholasta wrote:
> On 25.8.2015 15:37, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 11:34 +0200, Jan Cholasta wrote:
> >> On 25.8.2015 11:25, Jan Cholasta wrote:
> >>> On 24.8.2015 19:51, Simo Sorce wrote:
> >>>> Why do we have cainstance.py and ca.py and krainstance.py and kra.py in
> >>>> ipaserver/install when you always need both files to do anything around
> >>>> installation of the ca ?
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a motivation ?
> >>>> Or can I simply provide a patch to remove the ca.py and kra.py files an
> >>>> unify all code in the proper *instance.py file ?
> >>>
> >>> ca.py and kra.py are the proper files ready to be migrated to the new
> >>> install framework, cainstance.py and krainstance.py will be removed.
> >>
> >> ... once the migration is done. (Hit send button too fast.)
> >>
> >> The motivation is that *instance.py do not provide a uniform interface,
> >> have a lot of redundant and duplicate stuff and are generally unfit for
> >> any further extension.
> >
> > I have been changing only the instance files, so we are going in
> > different directions.
> 
> I don't see how, {ca,kra}instance.py code is called from {ca,kra}.py. 
> {ca,kra}.py contains all the code that is actually needed to install 
> CA/KRA that is not in {ca,kra}instance.py and was previously scattered 
> around ipa-{server,replica,ca,kra}-install.
> 
> >
> > I do not really care what file we are going into, but there is a lot of
> > code in the installer now that does not tell the user a step is being
> > done, while instances do that through the step interface.
> 
> This code was always there, we only moved it to a single location. See 
> git history.
> 
> >
> > The step interface is also a very good way to let someone that read the
> > code see what is going on and follow each step.
> >
> > Are you proposing to stop going through the instances steps ? I found
> > the current way kra and ca installation is setup basically a regression,
> > it took me a *lot* longer that it should be needed to follow through all
> > the steps that are really taken.
> 
> Again, we only moved the code around, and I don't think we created any 
> regressions.

Ok, so the plan is just to move the CAInstance class and code *as is*
from cainstance.py to ca.py ? I guess I am confused about what is your
plan around this exactly.

Simo.


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