[Spacewalk-list] How is the new configurable rhncfg-client diff meant to be used?

[Pierre Casenove]

Hello
I can confirm this on my setup (SW 1.9 with pgsql on rhel5).
Is there any plan to have this feature working through the gui?

Pierre
Le 26 avr. 2013 18:38, "Snyder, Chris" <Chris_Snyder at sra.com> a écrit :

> Was there ever any answer on this?  I haven't found anything in the
> archives and I'm looking for the exact same thing.
>
> Being able to see all diff output via the gui is really important for my
> environment.
>
> Thx
> Chris.
>
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> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Hurrelmann
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> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] How is the new configurable rhncfg-client diff
> meant to be used?
>
> Hi list,
>
> as one feature/fix for 1.9 the release notes state, that the
> configuration file diff is now configurable. I tried to get the idea
> behind it and this is what I have so far:
>
> The new option "display_diff = True" is needed in file
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhncfg-client.conf (when one wants to allow diff on
> root/nonworld readable files without the need to provide the flag "-d").
> At least this brings back working diff of config files in cli. But I
> thought it would also be evaluated for the webgui. But does it is not.
> Diffs initiated frpm the webgui still show:
>
> "Differences exist in a file that is not readable by all. Re-deployment
> of configuration file is recommended."
>
> With the proper config in rhncfg-client.conf and fix from BZ#903534
> (this is in SW1.9). I thought this would all work and we are back to the
> functionality as in SW1.7.
>
> Shouldn't the new parameter display_diff be added to the default config
> as provided by rhncfg-client rpm? In git I can see that it is there, but
> not in release rpms.
>
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spacewalk.git/tree/client/tools/rhncfg/config_client/rhncfgcli.conf
>
> Regards
> Patrick
>
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