[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH node-image] Only lock root account for production builds. For non-release builds leave it open

[David Lutterkort]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 22:30 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> There's not any definitive way.  What's done in anaconda, for example,
> is to set BETANAG in /usr/lib/anaconda/constants.py.  Other apps end up
> using compile-time definitions.  For something like the node, I'd
> probably lean towards a sysconfig file (/etc/ovirt-node.cfg or similar)
> and just set shell variable style variables like DEVMODE=1 or yes or
> similar.  That way it's very clear what's going on and people can
> trivially toggle it accordingly in their own builds

That seems like overkill - we don't really need to dynamically switch
between dev and prod modes.

How about every developer sticks a '%ovirt_devel_mode 1' into their
~/.rpmmacros, and we include some really gross file
like /THIS-IS-AN-OVIRT-DEV-BUILD in ovirt-node when %ovirt_devel_node is
set ?

David