[Rdo-list] [OpenStack-docs] [install-guide] Status of RDO

[Ihar Hrachyshka]

> On 21 Oct 2015, at 12:02, Alan Pevec <apevec at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2015-10-21 10:48 GMT+02:00 Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com>:
>>> On 15 Oct 2015, at 20:31, Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 4) Packages only reference upstream configuration files in standard
>>> locations (e.g., /etc/keystone).
>> 
>> Not sure what exactly it means. RDO packages are using neutron-dist.conf that contains RDO specific default configuration located under /usr/share/ for quite a long time.
> 
> Yes, it's about dist.conf that are unique solution to provide distro
> specific default values.
> I'm not sure how are other distros solving this if at all, they
> probably either rely on upstream defaults or their configuration
> management tools?
> Thing is that upstream defaults cannot fit all distributions, so I
> would expect all distros to pick up our dist.conf solution but we
> probably have not been exaplaning and advertising it enough hence
> confusion in the upstream docs.

I suspect other distros may just modify /etc/neutron/neutron.conf as they fit. It’s obviously not the cleanest solution.

I believe enforcing a specific way to configure services upon distributions is not the job of upstream, as long as default upstream way (modifying upstream configuration files located in /etc/<service-name>/*.conf) works.

Ihar
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