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Steve - Great!

Given that the instructions for RHEL and SUSE variants already use
"connection" in the [database] section and "openstack-config" will create
the section, does this issue only affect Ubuntu now?


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Steve Gordon <sgordon at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Matt Kassawara" <mkassawara at gmail.com>
> > To: "Anne Gentle" <annegentle at justwriteclick.com>
> > Cc: "Andreas Jaeger" <aj at suse.com>, openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
> > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 9:40:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Openstack-docs] Cinder and sql_connect/connection
> >
> > On at least Ubuntu and RHEL variants, placing "connection" in the
> > [database] section of cinder.conf appears to work.  However, the
> > base/sample cinder.conf on both distributions lacks the [database]
> section.
> >  The Ubuntu version is particularly sparse.
> >
> > For Ubuntu, a previous patch to the installation guide merely moved
> > "sql_connection" to the [database] section which isn't supported.  For
> RHEL
> > variants, apparently the "openstack-config" command breaks because it
> can't
> > find the [database] section and won't create it.  The Havana release of
> > Cinder still supports the legacy "sql_connection" in the [default]
> section
> > in both distributions.  We could revert the installation guides to use
> this
> > legacy configuration, but it would add an extra step for the upgrade
> > procedure to Icehouse.
> >
> > For Ubuntu, I suggest we use the modern configuration with "connection"
> in
> > the [database] section and tell people to create the [database] header if
> > it doesn't exist.  For RHEL variants, I suggest we mention editing
> > cinder.conf to add the [database] header before using the
> > "openstack-config" command with "connection" in the [database] section.
>  On
> > a side note, I'm also thinking that "openstack-config" should support
> > creation of section headers.
>
> It already does:
>
> -bash-4.1# touch test.conf
> -bash-4.1# openstack-config --set test.conf DEFAULT does_this_work True
> -bash-4.1# cat test.conf
> [DEFAULT]
> does_this_work = True
>
> -Steve
>
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