[openstack-dev] [keystone] sqlite doesn't support migrations

Stephen Gran stephen.gran at guardian.co.uk
Mon Jul 15 10:01:59 UTC 2013


On 15/07/13 10:46, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 07/15/2013 04:32 PM, Stephen Gran wrote:
>> On 15/07/13 09:26, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>>> Dolph,
>>>
>>> If you do that, then you will be breaking Debian packages, as they
>>> expect Sqlite as the default, for example when using
>>> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install keystone (if you choose
>>> MySQL, then you need to enter admin credentials to setup the db). I will
>>> receive tons of piupart failures reports if we can't upgrade with SQLite.
>>>
>>> I would really be disappointed if this happens, and get into situations
>>> where I have RC bugs which I can't realistically close by myself.
>>>
>>> So really, if it is possible, continue to support it, at least from one
>>> release to the next.
>>
>> Why not just change the default for Debian?  Sqlite isn't particularly
>> useful for actual deployments anyway.
>
> Because that is the only backend that will work without providing
> credentials on the keyboard, so it is the only one that will work in a
> non-interactive session of apt-get (which is used for all automated
> tests in Debian, including piuparts).

It strikes me that making the least useful option for users the default 
in order to pass a test suite is suboptimal.  I'm sure this conversation 
would be better continued off list if you're interested.

Cheers,
-- 
Stephen Gran
Senior Systems Integrator - guardian.co.uk
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