[Swift-devel] Status of swiftconfig

[David Kelly]

Hello Tom,

I think, in general, swiftconfig is being replaced with another utility
called gensites. Gensites and swiftconfig are similar in that they create
sites.xml files based on templates.

Gensites can replace values in templates with environment variables or with
PBS style comments in a swift configuration file. There is some preliminary
documentation about how it works at
https://sites.google.com/site/swiftguide/home/managingsites. I need to
expand that documentation, but hopefully it should give you an idea of how
it works.

The template issue you are running into I think is due to there being a mix
of both swiftconfig and gensites templates in etc/sites. The gensites
templates are single files, where the swiftconfig templates are directories.
I just cleaned this up a bit in trunk, but 0.92 may still have a strange mix
of both.

Please let me know if you have any questions about how it works.

Thanks,
David

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Thomas Uram <turam at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> I need to build swift config files in a fashion to which swiftconfig
> appears well suited. In trying to run it, using swift 0.92 (Yes, I know
> about 0.92), I get:
>
> turam at login1 bin 1106$ !sw
> swiftconfig -template ssh
> Unable to find template for ssh
>
> In this case, what swiftconfig fails to find is this file:
>
> /autonfs/home/turam/dev/swift-0.92/etc/sites/ssh/sites.xml
>
> So it appears to assume that the template names are directories with a
> sites.xml file thereunder. In fact, the template names are themselves sites
> files. I've modified this in swiftconfig, which ends up throwing errors but
> eventually working, but I wonder:
>
> What is the status of swiftconfig?
>
> I checked SVN, and this disagreement over whether templates are directories
> or files persists there.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
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