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

[Perry Myers]

David Lutterkort wrote:
> 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 ?

I'm also fine which this solution assuming everyone else is.

Perry