Re: [Autotest] [PATCH] Move global configuration files to client dir

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On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 15:59 -0800, Steve Howard wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:30 AM, John Admanski <jadmanski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I thought about it a bit more:
> >
> > Maybe a better approach would be to have the global_config module find
> > the ini file in job.autodir (so on a client it would show up in the
> > client/ dir, and on the server in the "true" top-level dir) and then
> > add support to Autotest.run so that it copies over the server's copy
> > of the config to the client before launching a client job?
> >
> > So that way it would "just work", and changes to the server config
> > would automatically get pushed out to client jobs. All without moving
> > the file that users running a server need to edit. And it's not too
> > complex of a design; the Autotest.run code already needs to copy over
> > a few files by hand like control files so copying over the config too
> > isn't too much of a burden.
> 
> For the record, I agree with John's proposed approach.

Yes, I am preparing a patch using John's idea, will send it tomorrow
morning.

Thanks guys,

> Steve

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