Beaker-devel March 2009

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can you give me a about beaker documentation?
by holmes86 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

hi,everyone: I download beaker of source by git,and install the beaker.but now,I don't know used beaker,and I can't found any about beaker documentation.who can help me? thanks very much! -- 知其然，不知其所以然！

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quesion about beaker architechure
by Ray Chen 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Greeting, guys, Here are some questions when I read beaker docs or source codes. 1. how to use medusa-lab-control, and how does it work with medusa-server? seems that the medusa system is on top of cobbler system if we can get the beaker architecture overview. Considering test regression, we often need to install/reinstall or setup machine environment. So, is the medusa only responsible for configure the testing machine (I means OS)? 2. what is this script used to? (Medusa/lab-controller/aux/rhts-checkin) I guess it's the interface between beaker-Schedule and beaker-rhts. In that file, there are such line: session = xmlrpclib.Server("http://%s:% s/cgi-bin/rhts/scheduler_xmlrpc.cgi" % (server, port)) Here, I can't cheduler_xmlrpc.cgi in source code. what's scheduler_xmlrpc.cgi used for? 3.how to implement rhts library as a STAF service? as we discussed before, we should make rhts library as STAF service. Is there any requirement about this, such as use case or command line example?? Thanks, Ray

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Package [re]naming
by James Laska 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Greetings folks, Some discussion took place this morning on #beaker about how to name and group the collection of current (and planned) beaker packages. Ray recommended bringing this discussion to a wider audience on the list. This is related to the pending fedora package review milestone (https://fedorahosted.org/beaker/milestone/Package%20Review) Bill Peck has suggested that we align the RPM packaging around the already legally approved project name 'beaker'. The question proposed on IRC was: 1) Do we have a single .spec and src.rpm and everything is a sub-package? I may be over simplifying things but I'd prefer this solution. I guess that drawbacks are changing any sub-component would bump the package NVR of all related packages. That could certainly be painful during pre-1.0 development, but perhaps not as much of an issue long term. 2) rhtslib (aka beaker-testlib?) would probably be it's own src.rpm. To me this falls into the category of user contributed code? But perhaps the testlib will be considered the standard for all beaker tests? Thoughts/ideas/concerns? Thanks, James -- ========================================== James Laska -- jlaska(a)redhat.com Quality Engineering -- Red Hat, Inc. ==========================================

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Ticket 18
by Bill Peck 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

I know I have people who are interested in helping beaker so I thought I'd email about this ticket. https://fedorahosted.org/beaker/ticket/18 The request is to add kerberos to xmlrpc service in beaker. Currently I'm authenticating the xmlrpc URI /RPC2 to use a mod_wsgi auth script. I would switch this over to mod_krb but it doesn't look like python has a negotiate method for kerberos. Perl can do it via an LWP cpan module. Koji has this pretty much figured out but its done around the django framework. Anyone up for porting it to Turbogears?

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[PATCH] FIX: Changes to boolean values are not tracked properly - history record is created even if value does not change.
by Marian Csontos 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

Hi folks, see attached patch for fix of a minor bug in medusa. Comments? It is my first patch, be merciful ;-) Marian >From a42f7ed778df4691d5bec20006abdda4c9715a60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marian Csontos <mcsontos(a)redhat.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:49:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] FIX: Changes to boolean values are not tracked properly - history record is created even if value does not change. DEVEL CHANGES: * True and False need to be stringified. * Removed some duplicated code. --- Medusa/medusa/controllers.py | 26 +++++++++----------------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/Medusa/medusa/controllers.py b/Medusa/medusa/controllers.py index c11ebde..28572f5 100644 --- a/Medusa/medusa/controllers.py +++ b/Medusa/medusa/controllers.py @@ -697,29 +697,21 @@ class Root(RPCRoot): # catch nullable fields return None. if current_val == 'None': current_val = "" - if kw.get(field): - if current_val != str(kw[field]): -# sys.stderr.write("\nfield: " + field + ", Old: " + current_val + ", New: " + str(kw[field]) + " " + "\n") - activity = SystemActivity(identity.current.user, 'WEBUI', 'Changed', field, current_val, kw[field] ) - system.activity.append(activity) - else: - if current_val != "": - activity = SystemActivity(identity.current.user, 'WEBUI', 'Changed', field, current_val, "" ) - system.activity.append(activity) + new_val = str(kw.get(field) or "") + if current_val != new_val: +# sys.stderr.write("\nfield: " + field + ", Old: " + current_val + ", New: " + str(kw[field]) + " " + "\n") + activity = SystemActivity(identity.current.user, 'WEBUI', 'Changed', field, current_val, new_val ) + system.activity.append(activity) log_bool_fields = [ 'shared', 'private' ] for field in log_bool_fields: try: current_val = str(system.__dict__[field]) except KeyError: current_val = "" - if kw.get(field): - if current_val != True: - activity = SystemActivity(identity.current.user, 'WEBUI', 'Changed', field, current_val, "True" ) - system.activity.append(activity) - else: - if current_val != False: - activity = SystemActivity(identity.current.user, 'WEBUI', 'Changed', field, current_val, "False" ) - system.activity.append(activity) + new_val = str(kw.get(field) or False) + if current_val != new_val: + activity = SystemActivity(identity.current.user, 'WEBUI', 'Changed', field, current_val, new_val ) + system.activity.append(activity) system.status_id=kw['status_id'] system.location=kw['location'] system.model=kw['model'] -- 1.6.0.6

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Beaker logo design request
by James Laska 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Greetings folks, At the request of Ondrej Hudlicky, I've submitted a design logo request for the Fedora design crew to assist. Feel free to follow-up to the design request email if you have any tips/suggestions or skills with the gimp. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-March/msg00049.html Thanks, James -- ========================================== James Laska -- jlaska(a)redhat.com Quality Engineering -- Red Hat, Inc. ==========================================

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Beaker wiki cleanup
by James Laska 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Greetings, I've started trimming the wiki content. There was a lot of information on the start page that I'd like to split out into application specific pages. Current content is available at https://fedorahosted.org/beaker/wiki. First, the main components that make up beaker: * Lab Controller * Scheduler * Test Harness My thinking was we'd explain these in further detail on component-specific pages. First up would be the "Lab Controller". What sort of information should we start with? Perhaps ... * a basic quick start guide that covers installation and a minimal configuration? * some basic user-guide? * Adding a system * Finding a system * Reserving a system * Any existing design/requirements documentation and graphics? What else for lab-controller? Next up ... scheduler. This component isn't available yet. Perhaps more focus should be on development docs? Something that contributors might be able to use to get on board? Last up ... Test Harness. I think this should capture the work Jeff Fearn has already completed in terms of gathering requirements and reviewing off-the-shelf options. Great work here Jeff! What's the next step, a proof-of-concept using STAF and existing rhtslib tests? Remaining clean-up tasks include: * de-RHTS-ification of wiki pages Additional comments welcome... Thanks, James -- ========================================== James Laska -- jlaska(a)redhat.com Quality Engineering -- Red Hat, Inc. ==========================================

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request for design doc for beaker
by Ray Chen 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

HI, all I want to create a live CD, but find that following problem. It's problem about UnicodeEncodeError. Right now the terminal's locale is zh_CN.UTF-8. How to resolve this problem? Another problem: I have read rhtslib's code and it's easy to understand. But as for Medusa and logan is hard to read, do you have any doc for reference? Thanks, Ray ----------------Terminal Output----------------------------------------------- [ray@localhost livecd]$ locale LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_TIME="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_NAME="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="zh_CN.UTF-8" LC_ALL= [root@localhost qemu]# livecd-creator -c /usr/share/doc/livecd-tools-020/livecd-fedora-minimal.ks mke2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Filesystem label=fedora-minimal-i OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 65536 inodes, 262144 blocks 2621 blocks (1.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=268435456 8 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 8192 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376 Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (8192 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 28 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. tune2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Setting maximal mount count to -1 Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds Retrieving http://ftp.cs.pu.edu.tw/Linux/Fedora/development/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml ...OK Retrieving http://ftp.cs.pu.edu.tw/Linux/Fedora/development/i386/os/repodata/b0bbbe746… ...OK Retrieving http://ftp.cs.pu.edu.tw/Linux/Fedora/development/i386/os/repodata/d1debd96a… ...OK Retrieving http://ftp.cs.pu.edu.tw/Linux/Fedora/development/i386/os/Packages/basesyste… ...OK Retrieving http://ftp.cs.pu.edu.tw/Linux/Fedora/development/i386/os/Packages/rootfiles… ...OK ...... Retrieving ftp://ftp.sfc.wide.ad.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/development/i386/os/Packages/glibc-common-2.9.90-7.i586.rpm ...OK Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/yum-cli/callback.py", line 196, in callback UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 3-6: ordinal not in range(128) error: python callback <bound method RPMInstallCallback.callback of <callback.RPMInstallCallback instance at 0x9d119cc>> failed, aborting!

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