[Planetlab-devel] 2.6.17

[Kevin Atkinson]

[Again added devel at planet-lab.org to the CC list]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Mark Huang wrote:
>
>> Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>>> OK than in that case the myplc documentation is out of date and needs to 
>>> be updated as it says to edit plc_config.xml directory in section 3.1
>> 
>> You can and should edit the main configuration file to change values; and 
>> most people who are not performing customization en masse, shouldn't have 
>> to know about the support for configuration templates.
>
> But, won't the cause problems when new variables are introduced when 
> performing an upgrade, like from RC1 to RC2 which you pointed out?

In general I am really confused about when it is okay to modify 
plc_config.xml directory and when it is not.  I see you have code to merge 
in new variable changes to plc_config.xml, but when does that get called? 
When upgrading, or every time MyPLC restarts?  If it gets called every 
time MyPLC restarts I fail to see how my template plc_config.xml based on 
an older version of MyPLC will cause a problem, and if it did cause a 
problem, every user upgrading MyPLC from RC1 to RC2 will experience the 
problem.