Re: [gentoo-dev] [FRC] News item: Changing USE flags for >=app-backup/bacula

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On wto, 2017-08-15 at 06:55 +0200, tomjbe@gentoo.org wrote:
> Quoting Rich Freeman (2017-08-15 00:29:19)
> > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > On pon, 2017-08-14 at 21:58 +0200, Thomas Beierlein wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > * 'bacula-clientonly' becomes 'clientonly'
> > > 
> > > This is still negative logic in disguise. clientonly = noserver.
> 
> True. See below for discussion.
> > > 
> > > > * 'bacula-nodir' will be replaced by 'director' but with inverted logic
> > > > * 'bacula-nosd' will be replaced by 'storage-daemon' (also inverted).
> > > > 
> > > > 'director' and 'storage-daemon' will be active by default resulting in an
> > > > installation with backup director and storage daemon enabled.
> > > > 
> > 
> > ++
> > 
> > I guess to make it a bit more explicit, would it make sense to have 3 flags:
> > 
> > client - install the client   (or consider calling it file-daemon instead)
> > director - install the director
> > storage-daemon - install the storage daemon
> > 
> 
> That would be best, but it is not supported by their (autoconf based) build
> system (and would require a complete rewrite of it). The actual USE flags
> mostly mirrors the switches from the configure script. You can not set them as
> you like, they are not orthogonal E.g. the file deamon (client) will be
> installed unconditionally.
> 
> The configure script itself is very brittle atm and needs an urgent overhaul.
> Discussion with upstream goes a long way, but they do not want to change it
> because of the need to retest it on very different systems. No good situation.
> 
> A possible idea may be to drop the 'no/client' flag completely. If neither
> 'director' nor 'storage-daemon' is active all that is left would be the 
> file daemon.
> What do you think?

WFM. If the flag doesn't do anything except for disabling the two other
flags, then there's no place for such a flag.

> 
> The downside of that idea is that we diverge from baculas documentation which
> explicitly state that there is a 'clientonly' install. 
> 

Upstream install documentation is not relevant to Gentoo. The flag
descriptions in metadata.xml are.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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