%traceback section in config file?

[Michael DeHaan]

Kyle Powell wrote:
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> Jeremy Katz wrote:
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>> On Tuesday, January 27 2009, Michael DeHaan said:
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>>> How far back does %traceback go?
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>>> (EL 2/3/4?)
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>> It was added in April of 2003, so Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 should have
>> it I believe
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>> Jeremy
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> I don't see it in the last Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 anaconda
> (anaconda-9.1-8.RHEL.i386.rpm). RHEL 3 was based on Red Hat Linux 8 which was
> released September of 2002 so I don't think %traceback was ever added to the
> RHEL 3 code base. And considering Red Hat Linux 9 was released in March of 2003,
> I'd say you need Fedora or RHEL 4 to use %traceback.
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I'm really not sure I can use it anyway.

Reason I was asking -- James Laska and Bill Peck added some nice 
Anaconda monitoring code from a previous provisioning system to Cobbler, 
so we do now have a way for folks to do a whole bunch of logging of 
various Anaconda things remotely if they want. I'm not sure if this 
ultimately proves useful in extending that or not, but I figured I would 
ask.

(Look at the devel branch in git, not the stuff in Fedora/EPEL)

I also want to do a better remote status implementation, so I can say 
"show me all my systems that are installing in my lab/datacenter and 
what's up with them". Right now we have that, but it's based on their 
start time and whether they've finished. Spacewalk has another 
implementation that provides more granularity, I used to have a 
mod_python filter handler one (before various API things broke it, and 
it was unreliable anyway), but maybe I'll rewrite it someday.

Anyhow, I think tracebacks would be nice, but then again a failure in 
post doesn't trigger a traceback, so it's not that common either.

Still, good to know.

--Michael