[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0274] DNS: Check if dns package is installed

[Petr Spacek]

On 2.7.2015 12:57, Tomas Babej wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/02/2015 08:50 AM, Petr Spacek wrote:
>> On 1.7.2015 20:29, Tomas Babej wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/01/2015 04:45 PM, Petr Spacek wrote:
>>>> On 1.7.2015 15:32, Martin Basti wrote:
>>>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4058
>>>>> Requires patch freeipa-pspacek-0052
>>>>
>>>> ACK
>>>>
>>>
>>> I must admit I don't really like wrapping a constant in the method in
>>> the TaskNamespace object.
>>>
>>> We're interested in the constant itself - there's no case I can imagine
>>> where the name of the freeipa's dns package will be dynamic.
>>>
>>> For paths we have BasePathNamespace that contains all the paths, maybe
>>> we should introduce something similar for the non-path platform
>>> dependent constants?
>>
>> Generally I support this but it seems like a 4.3 material (and out of scope of
>> #4058). We need to finish 4.2 now.
>>
>> Please ACK or NACK ASAP.
>>
> 
> It's fairly straightforward to introduce a new platform namespace for
> constants.
> 
> See attached patch, it implements the namespace and already contains the
> proper values for the dns package name.
> 
> The original patch 274 would only need to use:
> 
>     >>> from ipaplatform.constants import constants
>     >>> constants.DNS_PACKAGE_NAME
>     'freeipa-server-dns'

I'm okay with that if Honza or somebody else knowledgable about the whole
platform-thingy can ACK this, amend Martin^2's patch 274 and test the whole thing.

Unfortunately I do not have time for it myself. If nobody does that please
push the original patch (when it's dependency pspacek-0052 gets ACK).

-- 
Petr^2 Spacek