CRUCIAL_PACKAGES_BUILTIN=[ 'NodeUpdate' , 'nodemanager' ]
# and operations can also try to push a list through a conf_file
# should use the second one for consistency, try the first one as well for legacy
-CRUCIAL_PACKAGES_OPTIONAL_PATH1='/etc/planetlab/NodeUpdate.packages'
-CRUCIAL_PACKAGES_OPTIONAL_PATH2='/etc/planetlab/crucial-rpm-list'
-
+CRUCIAL_PACKAGES_OPTIONAL_PATHS=[
+ # this is a legacy name, please avoid using this one
+ '/etc/planetlab/NodeUpdate.packages'
+ # file to use with a hand-written conf_file
+ '/etc/planetlab/crucial-rpm-list'
+ # this one could some day be maintained by a predefined config_file
+ '/etc/planetlab/sliceimage-rpm-list'
+]
# print out a message only if we are displaying output
def Message(message):
try:
crucial_packages = []
for package in CRUCIAL_PACKAGES_BUILTIN: crucial_packages.append(package)
- try: crucial_packages += file(CRUCIAL_PACKAGES_OPTIONAL_PATH1).read().split()
- except: pass
- try: crucial_packages += file(CRUCIAL_PACKAGES_OPTIONAL_PATH2).read().split()
- except: pass
+ for path in CRUCIAL_PACKAGES_OPTIONAL_PATHS:
+ try: crucial_packages += file(CRUCIAL_PACKAGES_OPTIONAL_PATH1).read().split()
+ except: pass
for package in crucial_packages:
# if package is not yet installed, like e.g. slice images,
# need to yum install, not yum update