[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0043] Properly handle ipa-replica-install when its zone is not managed by IPA

Ana Krivokapic akrivoka at redhat.com
Fri Mar 29 15:17:27 UTC 2013


On 03/29/2013 04:00 PM, Tomas Babej wrote:
> On 03/29/2013 03:48 PM, Ana Krivokapic wrote:
>> On 03/29/2013 03:11 PM, Tomas Babej wrote:
>>> On 03/29/2013 02:15 PM, Ana Krivokapic wrote:
>>>> On 03/26/2013 04:59 PM, Tomas Babej wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> The ipa-replica-install script tries to add replica's A and PTR
>>>>> records to the master DNS, if master does manage DNS. However,
>>>>> master need not to manage replica's zone. Properly handle this use
>>>>> case.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3496
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> The patch works well and fixes the issue.
>>>>
>>>> Just a couple of nitpicks:
>>>>
>>>> 1) "However, master need not to manage replica's zone." -- This
>>>> sentence sounds a little strange to me, but I am not a native
>>>> speaker so I may be wrong about that.
>>>
>>> The phrase should be ok. I assume you're worried about "need not"
>>> construct, which may sound a bit unusal as opposed to, for example,
>>> "does not need to".
>>>
>>> One could argue that it sounds archaic. However, consider the
>>> following chart, which clearly proves the opposite:
>>>
>>> http://books.google.com/ngrams/chart?content=need%20not%2Cneeds%20not%2Cdoes%20not%20need%20to%2Cdoesn%20'%20t%20need%20to&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000
>>> <http://books.google.com/ngrams/chart?content=need%20not%2Cneeds%20not%2Cdoes%20not%20need%20to%2Cdoesn%20%27%20t%20need%20to&corpus=0&smoothing=3&year_start=1800&year_end=2000>
>>>
>>> For more detailed explanation, see:
>>>
>>> http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/29409/why-use-need-not-instead-of-do-not-need-to
>>>
>> Actually, the part that sounded weird to me is the "to" that comes
>> after "need not" in your commit message. Also, the stackexchange link
>> you provided states: "This /need/ is a *modal verb*: it always
>> requires an infinitive without /to/;".
>>
>> Sorry that I wasn't clear about this in my first email.
> Yes, that's a mistake on my part, thanks fot catching that. Fixed the
> commit message.
>>
>>>>
>>>> 2) There are three PEP8 501 errors introduced by the patch, but
>>>> given the recent discussion on this subject, I think it is really
>>>> up to you if you want to take the time to fix these.
>>>
>>> Sure I do. Thanks for the catch. Updated patch attached.
>> There is still one line with E501:
>>
>> install/tools/ipa-replica-install:303:80: E501 line too long (80 > 79
>> characters)
> I left that one so intentionally. Imho, it would only mangle the line
> unnecessarily, the line is exactly 80 characters long with no nice
> point where to break it.

OK, makes sense.
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ACK from the functional perspective.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ana Krivokapic
>>>> Associate Software Engineer
>>>> FreeIPA team
>>>> Red Hat Inc.
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ana Krivokapic
>> Associate Software Engineer
>> FreeIPA team
>> Red Hat Inc.
>

ACK

-- 
Regards,

Ana Krivokapic
Associate Software Engineer
FreeIPA team
Red Hat Inc.

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