Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH 09/11] mg-schema-test-database: New script

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 15:12 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [OSSTEST PATCH 09/11] mg-schema-test-database:
> New script"):
> > On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 19:35 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > This allows a user in non-standalone mode to make a whole new test
> > > database, which is largely a clone of the original database.
> > > 
> > > The new db refers to the same resources (hosts), and more-or-less
> > > safely borrows some of those hosts.
> > 
> > "more-or-less" ? ;-)
> 
> This is a reference to the lack of owner/queue daemon handling.ÂÂ(And
> of course, the general limitations of `safety' in this kind of
> context.)
> 
> > What's the overall idiom for use here, something like:
> > 
> > Against the production DB:
> > OSSTEST_TASK=ianc@testing-somethingÂ./mg-allocate [-U ...] a-host
> > 
> > ./mg-schema-test-database create [_SUFFIX]Âianc@testing-something
> > 
> > Ending up in a state where a-host is allocated in the production db and
> > idle in this new test db and all other hosts are allocated in the test
> > db
> > and left to go about their usual business in the production db?
> 
> Exactly.ÂÂMaybe I should copy this to the doc comment :-).

Please feel free to nab it.

> > I glanced through this, but TBH I don't think picking through it line
> > by
> > line will be very productive, I trust you've tested it and its ok...
> 
> Due to being incompetent I've hammered each part of it quite a bit and
> the all the resulting database states (even intermediate ones) look
> good.

:-)

Ian.

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