[RFC] New provider registration process

Russell Doty rdoty at redhat.com
Wed Aug 21 21:58:38 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 13:13 +0200, Tomáš Smetana wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:24:04 -0400
> Russell Doty <rdoty at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 12:22 +0200, Tomáš Smetana wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >   I'm now trying to figure out how to improve the provider registration
> > > process to make things at least look less fragile from the user's
> > > perspective.
> 
> <...>
> 
> > As an alternative, can the script search for which Providers are
> > installed on the system and assume that we should register all installed
> > Providers? This would tie registration to package installation, rather
> > than making it a separate operation.
> 
> We may want to register things not necessarily backed by a provider (a profile
> for example).  And for the providers: I need to determine also the right order
> of the registrations and the schemas the providers implement.
> 
> And yes, I don't think using the registration script outside the rpm
> scriptlets should be something usual -- only on very rare occasions should
> the user want to manually alter the registrations: still we need to keep this
> option.
OK, thanks for the explanation.
> 
> > Assuming we do a registration database,it would also support query of
> > the Providers and versions installed?
> 
> Yes, we can list the database information.
> 
> > Should the registration database feed information to OpenSLP?
> 
> No. It's the duty of the running CIMOM to advertise its capabilities through
> SLP.
> 
> Regards,




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