[Bastille-linux-discuss] Changes in ConfigureForDistro and GLOBAL_*

[Easterling, T. <tyl...@hp...>]

Hi All,

I've changed the way that GLOBAL_DIR, GLOBAL_FILE, GLOBAL_BIN, ... are
stored.  I moved all of the "data", i.e. the file path information, to
separate files based on OS Type, currently LINUX, OSX, and HP-UX.  This
new data format reduces the size of the API, pretty significantly, and
should make it easier to port to new distributions.  The data files are
located in a new CVS directory named OSMap.  There are three types of
OSMap files:

	.bastille which contains BDIR and BFILE information
	.system which contains DIR, BIN, and FILE information
	.service which contains service definitions for=20
		internal testing infrastructure, currently=20
		only used on HP-UX systems


For the .bastille and .system files the format is as follows:

(bdir|bfile|bin|file|dir),file_id,'/file/path',[distro list]

For example:

bin,accton,'/usr/sbin/accton'

The lack of distro information acts as a wildcard matching all distros
for the OSType.  So if for RH6.2 accton is in a different location, you
would provide that location below the general definition, and on RH6.2
the general definition would be overwritten by with the more specific
data. e.g.

bin,accton,'/usr/sbin/accton'
bin,accton,'/usr/sbin/accton',RH6.2

The list of distro can be of arbitrary length and the distro information
can be more or less specific.  For example, we know the initd directory
for the SuSe and Debian releases is in a different location than all
other distros.  Instead of listing each distro with specific version
information, you can shorten the matching pattern to SE and DB
respectively and avoid enumerating all Debian and SuSe distributions.
For example:

dir,initd,'/etc/rc.d/init.d'
dir,initd,'/etc/init.d',DB,SE


Hope this is all clear, let me know if you are having a hard time with
the new infrastructure.

Tyler