Dear Oliver,
forgive me, I know it's hard. I opened a bug about the YAIM parameters.
http://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9806
thanks
cheers
alessandra
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Oliver KEEBLE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The issue of what to make configurable in yaim is tricky. Too little,
> and the customisation work needed at each site undermines its
> usefulness. Too much, and its complexity approaches that of the
> middleware it is trying to simplify. I'm sure you can understand that
> for pretty much any variable, there is a site somewhere which would like
> to see it parameterised.
>
> You can set up a site now without changing so much in the example
> site-info file; it contains many defaults already. Putting other
> defaults elsewhere would be confusing. Further, values are frequently
> shared accross scripts, and thus a config file per script is a recipe
> for inconsistency.
>
> I think what we have to do is
>
> i) make it easier to tell which variables must be changed for a
> particular node type (because they have no good defaults)
> ii) make it easier to tell which variables have good defaults but can be
> tweaked if necessary
> iii) choose the vars in 'ii' properly
>
> It think this can be handled within one well layed-out site-info file.
>
> As for what variables yaim should support, if you'd like to see
> something added, please open a savannah bug. By all means mention on the
> rollout that you've done so, so others can register their support
> (BDII_BIND anyone, or is it just Henry...??).
>
> Oliver.
>
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>
> Alessandra Forti // EOJ wrote:
>> Hi Henry,
>>
>>> If possible though, it would be better done as a separate "chapter" in
>>> site-info.def ("Operational Defaults") else there'll be a morass of
>>> optional config files to deal with...
>>
>>
>> I was thinking a config for each script that needs it so that there is
>> 1-1 correspondence and it is easy to know what affects what, but your
>> solution is good as well a paragraph for each script (still 1-1
>> correspondence).
>>
>> cheers
>> alessandra
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Henry
>>>
>>> --
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>>> "The opossum is a very sophisticated animal.
>>> It doesn't even get up until 5 or 6 p.m."
>>>
>>
>
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